I just came home from getting my booster. Notice that I did not use the word ‘shot’. I wasn’t shot, nor was that the intention of the kind woman who administered the life-giving injection.
How easy it is for war metaphors to slip into our speech without notice. Recently, a friend who is going through cancer treatments wrote that she was not in a battle with cancer!
Rather she was on a journey and treating cancer was part of the current path she was on.
Life is a journey, not a battle. Think about that! On a journey we experience ups and downs, but we have choices and our goal is always positive. A battle implies war, the goal negative. My friends comment encourages me to renew my commitment to avoid those war metaphors.
How easy it is for war metaphors to slip into our speech without notice. Recently, a friend who is going through cancer treatments wrote that she was not in a battle with cancer!
Rather she was on a journey and treating cancer was part of the current path she was on.
Life is a journey, not a battle. Think about that! On a journey we experience ups and downs, but we have choices and our goal is always positive. A battle implies war, the goal negative. My friends comment encourages me to renew my commitment to avoid those war metaphors.