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We all enjoy watching things grow. There may be a wall or door in your house with marks and names and numbers by the marks. They are snapshots of your children, or yourself, at different ages. At some point in school, you probably brought home a Styrofoam cup with a seed buried in some dirt. There was the excitement of watching a tiny leaf emerge from the dirt and grow into a plant.
One of the biggest stressors that you may be experiencing is time. In one of the great ironies of life, technologies like the Internet and wireless devices were they were supposed to make life easier and more efficient, but we struggle now with time more than we did before we had these amazing inventions.
It is interesting to compare the original meaning of a word with how it is used today. Sometimes, looking at the original meaning can open up your understanding of a word. The word for today is “cope.” Cope comes from an Old French word that means “to quarrel, to hit or punch, to deliver blows, to engage in combat.”
