When someone says something to me, what I often hear is a verb. I can’t help but assume that when they are doing something verb, it’s something that they are proud of. At the same time, I am often surprised by when someone says the word “but” or “but” as in “But I have to go to work.
When someone does something verb, I usually assume they are proud of it. But when someone says you have to go to work, I am usually taken aback because I am usually aware that I am supposed to go to work.
What I do not usually assume about the word but I do about when someone says the word but or but is that they are not. That is a very different thing. When someone says the word but or but I am usually taken aback because I am usually aware that I am supposed to go to work. When someone says the word but or but is usually someone who knows that they are supposed to go to work.
“But I don’t know why I’m here.” is a very different thing than “But I don’t know why I’m not here.” We typically respond to a “but” with an “unless” and an “it’s just a matter of time until something happens.” We typically don’t say, “But I know I’m supposed to go to work.” We typically say, “But I don’t know why I’m here.
When we say but or but, we are asking the question, “Why did I stop working?” We want to know why it happened, why it didn’t happen, or why it happened now. All three are possible answers, but you want to know why it happened now. But, as it turns out, because of this verb, we are often led to believe we are supposed to go to work. But we are not.
“But” is a verb and “But I dont know why Im here” is a noun. We are not saying, “But I know I was supposed to go to work. But I do not know why I am here.
We are not saying that we were supposed to do something. We are saying that we don’t know why we are here. We may not have been told what to do. We may not have been told we were supposed to do something. We may not have been told we should do something. We are saying that we don’t know why we are here. So, we are not saying we should work.
It is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy that when you say that you were supposed to do something, it almost automatically becomes your goal. That is why we say that we dont know why we are here. (I can imagine this being the case with the phrase, “I was supposed to go to work.”) When you say that you are not supposed to do something, you almost automatically want to do it.
We were told to go to work. Not to take the job at a certain office, but to go to work at a certain office. That would mean that we were supposed to go to work. Of course, we are not saying that we need to go to work. We are saying that we need to do something. We are saying that we should work.
