Why Marinate is My Favorite Word...

Mar⋅i⋅nate - [mar-uh-neyt] - verb (used with object), -nat⋅ed, -nat⋅ing.
To steep (food) in a marinade.

Origin:
1635–45; prob. < It marinato, ptp. of marinare to pickle.

I like to use the word marinate to say I'm thinking deeply, relishing in, or trying to make a decision about something. This is not an original thought I came up with all by my lonesome. I heard it from the delightful, 2001 movie KISSING JESSICA STEIN. Helen, one of the lead characters uses it to tell Jessica that she doesn't have to make a decision just yet, she just has to "let it marinate for a while."

Ever since I heard it - "marinate" has been my favorite word. You know like at a dinner party where everyone has to come up with a question so those who don't know you very well can get to know you better -- that's my answer for what's your favorite word.

I like it because it's simple. Because it doesn't sound like a medical term or a sexually tranmitted disease or a place in Czechoslovakia.

And in the context I use it in, it doesn't make sense to people so they question it, which in a way makes me feel smart or clever... but I'm not people. It's in a movie for goodness sake.

Some ways you too can use the word marinate:
"Hey what are you doing tonight?"
"Oh, I don't know. I'm marinating on it. Let me get back to you."

"Have you finished that report?"
"No, it's still marinating in my brain."

"Do you want to have sex?"
"There is no way I'd let you marinate in me."

Okay that last one was pretty good, right?!

Now go marinate about the ones you care about and love. Think about them and make sure they know you are blessed to have them in your life.

Afterall, we won't marinate in this world for long.

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates