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Phrase: Lift your spirits
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to make an announcement.
Today is Sunday!
If that doesn’t lift your spirits, I don’t know what will.
Something that lifts your spirits causes you to become more cheerful or happy.
Isn’t it strange that the best day of the week comes right before the worst day of the week?
I don’t know why that is, but it is a cause of massive mood swings on an international scale.
You can wake up late on Sundays, enjoy a second cup of coffee, and take your time walking around the neighbourhood looking for a nice place to have lunch.
Nothing can lift your spirits like a leisurely walk on a beautiful day when you don’t have a care in the world.
Then the alarm goes off early on Monday morning, and the rat race begins. You have to go to work.
That’s a depressing thought, but today’s topic is the phrase lift your spirits, and it is Sunday.
We’ll leave Monday for another time.
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What else lifts your spirits?
For me, it’s waking up early on a summer day with the birds singing about an hour before the sun begins to peek above the mountains.
It’s a great feeling to be awake and active while the world is still sleeping.
Each day starts afresh, and you can do with it what you want.
My wife thinks I’m nuts and the birds are noisy, but what does she know?
Something that may lift your spirits is spring itself.
This year spring seems to be perfect.
We’ve had great weather, the temperature isn’t fluctuating too much, and the cherry blossoms have lasted for a long time.
If that still doesn’t lift your spirits, you require more help than I am qualified to give you.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 82.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
