March 22 | Squoze

“When you squeeze an orange, what comes out is orange juice” – Wayner Dyer

Without consulting any experts on squeezing, there are two very important questions:

First, what is it you are squeezing?

Second, is the squeeze squoze?

(Merriam-Webster defines “squoze” as the dialectical past tense of squeeze). 

Of course, there’s an easy way to answer both of those questions: you can tell what you’re squeezing based off of what’s coming out. If you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice. If you don’t squeeze an orange, you get scurvy. Said otherwise, if you’re getting orange juice, you’re likely squeezing an orange.

The second question is just as easy to answer: squeeze. If more juice comes out, then you’re still squeezing. If nothing comes out, you’re squoze. 

Life has a lot of squeezes. Bills. Deadlines. Circumstance after circumstance. A seemingly endless string of bad apples and burnout forever cranking down the pressure on your brain. 

So if life is putting on the squeeze, here’s the two questions:

First, what’s the juice? What is the squeeze wringing out of you?

Second, are you done? Is the the squeeze squoze?… Read the rest