Look it up!
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Alright– here’s one of the personal stories I wrote up for class:
Mom was driving me to piano lessons, and as usual, I had my nose in a book. A string of geese flew overhead, and Mom pointed them out—“Laura, Look at the Geese!” I grunted and kept reading. Mom saw my reaction, and said, “You know what you are? You’re jaded!” Jaded? I looked up and asked, “What does that mean?” Of course Mom wouldn’t tell me—it was time to play “Look it up!” But this wasn’t fair—I had no dictionary, and was heading to piano lessons. I wouldn’t be able to look it up! What had she called me? I rushed through piano lessons, and we drove home. I begged Mom, “Please, what does ‘jaded’ mean? Does it mean I’m a bookworm?” But Mom just let me suffer. I pulled out Webster’s and went to the J’s…Jab Jac… there it was… Jaded: made dull, apathetic, uninterested or cynical by too much of something. What? Mom thought I wasn’t interested in geese? I cried out, “But Mom, I love geese! I’m not jaded!” And I’ve never forgotten the meaning of that word.
