Today marks my boyfriend's and my one-month anniversary! I'm so glad we've stayed together this long, and hope we'll be together for much, much longer. Okay, enough with the sappy stuff, on to the random truth.
The French have this term and I wish we had an English term that means the same thing: l'esprit d'escalier, literally meaning "the spirit of the stairs." Have you ever been in a conversation where someone tells you something you need to reply to (kind of but not necessarily a comeback), but you can't think of anything, and then after the conversation ends it finally hits you? That's what l'esprit d'escalier is. I have a lot of experiences with this evil "spirit," and I'm afraid I seem insensitive when I can't think of anything clever yet nice to reply with. Hopefully I will overcome it soon!
Love from your faithful blogger and (girl)friend,
Meridith
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