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Word of the Day: Avid
Want to achieve a sense of fulfillment in your life?
Once you discover what you are avid about, look for a way to make that your job or a significant part of your life.
As the saying goes, find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.
When people have a passion for something, they are avid about it.
That means they are incredibly interested in it and eager about it.
If you want a clear mental image of an avid sports fan, think about the Hanshin Tigers of Japanese Professional Baseball.
Tigers fans are passionate fans who proudly wear their team’s colours.
The most avid fans clothe themselves from head to toe in Tigers-themed clothing.
I’ve even seen a guy paint his truck in black and yellow stripes.
If you’re ever in the vicinity of Koshien stadium on a game day and see the fans banging thundersticks together while draped in Tiger’s colours, think to yourself, ‘Those are avid fans.’
Now that you have that image, it should be easy to understand what avid means.
There are many problems in the world, and I can’t hope to solve them all here in my little blog post.
One thing for sure, though, is that too many people in Japan and the world are unhappy in their jobs.
Every day they go off to a place they hate, work with people they dislike and do jobs which bring them no joy.
For sure, they do it for the money, but does that mean they can’t be happy campers while they do it?
I don’t think so.
When we’re kids, we feel pressure to choose our life path when we graduate high school and enter university.
Most of us are not old enough to be avid about anything.
However, if we could rethink our lives and choose something different, I’m sure many of us would prefer a job dealing with our passion – something about which we are avid.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 76.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.