If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
If there were a word that deserved early retirement from my daily dictionary, it would be the phrase I toss around like confetti: “Give me peace of mind!” My kids hear it so often that I suspect they think it’s part of their names.
It slips out in the middle of homework chaos, during epic living-room battles over remote controls, or when a Lego block makes its surprise attack under my foot. Sometimes, I don’t even say it in full—just a dramatic sigh followed by the words as though I’m auditioning for a soap opera.
“Peace is not the absence of noise, but the ability to find calm in the middle of it,” I once read. But honestly, when three little whirlwinds are running in circles, it feels like peace has taken a one-way vacation to the Maldives.
If I did manage to give up saying it, I wonder what would replace it. Perhaps I’d start declaring, “Mayhem, welcome home!” Or maybe I’d whisper, “Chaos, my old friend.” Who knows, my kids might be so shocked by the new script that they’ll sit quietly—at least for thirty seconds.
Yet, there’s a funny tenderness in this overused phrase. Maybe it isn’t really a complaint, but my hidden way of saying, “You drive me crazy, but life would be dull without you.”
Thought to ponder: Sometimes the words we wish to give up are the very ones that stitch our everyday stories together.
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