Today’s Words:
draconian
slither
pillage
yet
fraught
accolades
coalesce

Ah, fraught. My favorite word.

Giving accolades is fraught. How to celebrate without elevating, how to honor without those betters and worses slithering in? In NVC you bring it all back to the specific, to the here and now I feel happy and gratitude. Not “you are so great”, not generalizing into an abstraction of better-ness that can be hard to climb out of, to break, to dissolve.

All to the good, but is it something in us that tends to generalize or is just our faulty education that we’ve not yet rescinded from our mind. Who knows, I guess the rescinding’s the thing. If we try, and we fail, then we can ask in what ways it might be in us to generalize and abstractify and why, seeking more clarity as to root causes. But only if we need to. Otherwise the whys and wherefores lead astray into more theories and less happiness. I posit.