Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We “just” … Nothing is easy. We might as well describe the situation as it is.

Everything is easy if someone else is supposed to do it. When I have to do it, not so easy. Yet, we describe things as easy.

We’ll just do this and that and be done with it.

Substitute “just” with “struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to”

Examples:

Original: We’ll just tell him that we don’t want him.

Revised: Well struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to tell him that we don’t want him.

Original: We’ll just move across the country and set up shop somewhere else.

Revised: We’ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to move across the country and set up shop somewhere else.

Original: We’ll just hire a new builder.

Revised: We’ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to  hire a new builder.

Original: We’ll just start over.

Revised: We’ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to start over.

Original: I’ll just write a blog post explaining how the word “just” shouldn’t be used.

Revised: I’ll struggle, and struggle, and struggle because it is really difficult to write a blog post explaining how the word “just” shouldn’t be used.

I could go on. Nothing is easy. Let’s be candid about that.