Today’s Friday here in the United States of America. So, if I say, “I am excited about what we’re doing next Saturday,” do you think I am referring to tomorrow or a week from tomorrow?
My daughter posed this question to me earlier this week (Tuesday), about my use of the word, next, when I had said, “I’m excited about our eye exam next Saturday.” I was shocked when she didn’t know I was referring to the upcoming Saturday, which is tomorrow!
After all my years as a writer, I didn’t know there could be different ways to interpret the word, next! Ha! Go figure. Learning all the time!
When I looked up the definition of next, here’s what I found:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/next
I was schooled in West Virginia and to me, I was using next to mean the, “nearest or immediately succeeding” Saturday.
But my daughter was schooled in Florida, and has lived in New England for more than the last ten years. And she interpreted my use of, next, (as further analysis uncovered) to mean the Saturday of the following week:
So, as always (and perhaps with all things), there can be multifaceted meanings and different ways of expressing thoughts and ideas. Ha!
Spiral thought: When I argue (even a little bit) with someone over anything, it highlights that I still have an ego.
Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story
Yes, Everything Happens for a Reason in the multiverse and Everything Resolves to Gratitude. Knowing that each of us (as fractals) uplifts my mind and allows me to view life as a lively kaleidoscope grand design that moves about in an ever-expanding, revolving, melodious, consciousness. Even if we have to disconnect from some people, for a time.
Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!
Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
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Jennifer and I used to argue about this. She was schooled in WV… for her “Next” Sunday meant tomorrow to her…for me it meant the following Sunday after tomorrow. Now…I think you both are correct logically…I think it should mean the next Sunday…where ever that might be. At 8pm on a Saturday Night…next Sunday should mean the next day in 4:00 hours but I was brought up to think it was the following weekend not tomorrow. Anyway…if I made sense… We argued but I saw her point and in reality I think it’s the way it should be. Now we give dates.
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I hear you, Max. So many things seem to depend upon where on is schooled/raised. I still use some words my mom said that aren’t even words! Ha!
Let me mogate right over there. It meant to walk on over. Ha!
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Jen and I make up words as well. LOL…I like that!
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When I worked at a camp in Pennsylvania, I ran into problems with my interpretation of ‘a couple.’ I meant it to mean a small unspecified amount but the camp insisted it meant exactly two.
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Ah, my mom used to say “a couple three,” which drove me nuts! LOL Thanks for bringing back that memory, Michael!
I asked my mom more than once to clarify if she meant two or three!
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