After asking a lady a question, she started to answer then stopped and said, \u201cOh my, I just went brain dead. I can\u2019t think of the word I want.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cThat happens to me all the time,\u201d not to compete with her but to assure her I was fine waiting until she found the word she wanted. She did.<\/p>\n
As a writer, words elude me regularly. Even today, I was writing and became baffled. I knew what word I wanted, but the word \u201cspeculative\u201d came to me and I typed it out only to stare at it and think, \u201cSomething is wrong with this. Is the p in the wrong place? I don\u2019t think it\u2019s what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n
No other words for that particular spot in the article came to me. I changed speculation to hesitation and felt better.<\/p>\n
It was hours later, on a walk, when it dawned on I was looking for \u201cskeptical.\u201d Thankfully, my deadline isn\u2019t passed, so I can change it.<\/p>\n
We aren\u2019t brain dead. They are just words. They come and go. We have gestures and tones to overpower the lack of the correct word.<\/p>\n
My interview went fine this morning. The lady became comfortable and fulfilled the article need.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, my vocabulary has sometimes been reduced to 8 words. Hi, no, yes, maybe, I\u2019m hungry, that thingy. Alas, life and love go on.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.\u201d\u2014I Peter 2:15-16, ESV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After asking a lady a question, she started to answer then stopped and said, \u201cOh my, I just went brain dead. I can\u2019t think of the word I want.\u201d I said, \u201cThat happens to me all the time,\u201d not to compete with her but to assure her I was fine waiting until she found the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[1736,1737],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community_world","category-at-work","tag-how-to-write","tag-mental-block"],"yoast_head":"\n