Willing
[ˈwiliNG] adjective
ready, eager, or prepared to do something.
Today, someone said they were “willing to keep trying”, and within the surrounding context, this was immediately received with a negative tone. Upon looking up the definition, it made me wonder how the word willing has become so overused and/or misused that it now often seems more related to a bare minimum, least amount of effort type situation.
Depending on where you find your version of the definition of willing, it can be read or misread as something viewed negatively, other words that came up were agreeable, and I realize the comparisons and examples used for the word willing came down to doing something of one’s own ‘will’ versus being forced or coerced into something.
I found this interesting snippet, which is kind of what I am getting at I suppose:
“Willing means you will do something if it is necessary or if it is asked of you, even if you don’t particularly want to“
To be continued….
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