25. Who Else Could Move The World?

Hello, Welcome. I’m Renée Valentina, and this is Musing Interruptus. Listen to Musing Interruptus if you like stories and learning idiomatic phrases in different contexts. You can read along; just click on continue reading in the description to open a Google Doc with the transcription of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, subscribe, follow, and share, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Drop a comment with your answers to today’s questions! I love hearing from you! "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Do you know who is famous for saying that?What a go-getter.Go-getters are quite a breed of people. I wonder if you can become one yourself if you are more of a procrastinator, or would rather be a lover than a fighter, maybe even just sit around doing nothing at all, waiting for the evening to roll in. This is less than procrastinating. Procrastinating would imply some sort of resistance to doing something right now, postponing it for later. I mean, the type of person who is not doing anything now, and never mind later.If you are that type of person, there is hope for you, yet! Go-getting might be in your future. This is not something impossible to attain. Once this happens, you start making lists, prioritizing what needs to be done, until eventually, your morning is packed with activities you never knew could be important, like taking out the organic trash before the acids eat through the plastic container or cleaning the tops of the cabinets in the kitchen well before the grime reaches 4 inches and you need something to scrape it off and bucket to haul it away with. Oh, the things you can accomplish before 10 am.Yes, you too can join the ranks of the go-getters. They also come up with ideas and find ways to execute them. They take interesting vacations and know where they want to eat, what museums to visit, including nocturnal experiences that the natives might enjoy, before they even board an airplane. Some might say it is a matter of having the right lever and fulcrum, which are different for each person. Or so we would like to think, and some even deign to say out loud, my fulcrum is awfully special, so says my psychologist, or my lever is bigger than the rest, so I get tired faster, but move greater masses. Others quietly get by and enjoy when their fulcrum and lever are admired, once evidence of movement and creation are evident and prime for praise. Things get interesting when you realize that the size of the lever and the type of fulcrum are all in your mind. A great many possibilities begin to open up. I think you can. But it is best if you think you can. Continue reading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TftMnZyFr936c1HzpaSEHrTyUZehkySbpDkUOD3N86s/edit?usp=sharing