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Word of the Day: Lifesaver
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
If you are a lucky person, in your moment of need, a lifesaver will come along.
I know it sounds very dramatic. I wanted it to be so.
If we are talking about physical lifesavers, they are the round floating devices on boats and piers easily found and thrown to help save someone who has fallen into the water or the actual person who jumps in to save them.
Then there is another kind.
This type can be anything else that comes around right when you need it.
Once I explain it, you’ll know exactly what I mean.
You just didn’t know it was called a lifesaver.
Imagine you are trapped in a boring conversation with a person who loves the sound of their own voice.
You want to get away but can’t seem to get a word in edgewise.
As you desperately search for a way out, the other person drones on and on.
Then your phone rings and you have a way out.
You take the phone out, make your apologies and answer.
It’s your friend!
Before she can tell you why she called, you thank her and tell her she is a lifesaver.
Precisely at the moment, you needed rescuing; there she was.
That’s what a lifesaver does; it, or they, are timely and arrive when you need them.
It happens more often than you may think.
We usually call it a coincidence, but the difference between a coincidence and a lifesaver is that a coincidence just happens, whereas a lifesaver is something you hoped for but never thought would come true.
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