Psalm 86:5

So my teacher has started his own SSR time twice a week. For those who are confused, SSR stands for Sustained Silent Reading. Last year we were forced to take out 10 minutes of our lunch time to sit and read at the end of 4th period. For the most part SSR = naptime. So needless to say the program no longer exists and our classes are now 10 minutes longer instead. But anyways my english teacher does his own SSR twice a week for 20 minutes instead. I am a big fan. My view on SSR last year was, it's a waste! in 10 minutes you could get in about 3 or 4 pages of a book. yipee? no no, not worth it at all. However 20 minutes is awesome.

So during SSR I came across some interesting stuff. Greg Spencer gave a lecture once about the power of metaphors. Consider what metaphors people use when considering the topic of cancer. We fight cancer, we battle cancer, etc. Spencer pointed out that most metaphors listed were related to war. Spencer believes that due to the word choices that people who are diagnosed with cancer feel more burdened than they should.

"Science has shown that the way people think about cancer affects
their ability to deal with the disease, thus affecting their
overall health. Because of war metaphors, we are more likely to
fear cancer when, actually, most people survive the disease."

Interesting stuff right? so i started thinking a lot about metaphors for the remaining 16 minutes of SSR. when talking about relationships we tend to use economic metaphors. We value people, we invest time into them relationships are priceless. Hm. So basically, we tend to think of love as a commodity. When someone does something that is beneficial to us, we like them and feel they have value to us. Think about it, if someone has an opposing opinion to yours and they are so convinced that they are right, your wrong...usually your not their #1 fan. However, we tend to finance the ones who do agree and support us. We use love like money, but love shouldn't work like money. It isn't a commodity.