A new direction...

By Vichara

There are days I’m sure that we feel like that fly circling around in front of a windowpane. We can see outside but for some reason it keeps flitting about using the same methodology to try to get out and keeps bumping into the glass. We are much the same way when seeking answers. We keep circling around using methodology that seemed to work before but now for some reason we keep hitting dead ends with no results except frustration. There will be times like this where you will need a new direction. Don’t worry the path has already been given to you, just look.

bludge • \BLUJ\ • verb, chiefly Australia & New Zealand
1 : to avoid work or responsibility
2 : to get something from or live on another by imposing on hospitality or good nature : sponge

Example Sentence:
"If I want to go to Rotto, I’ll catch the ferry or bludge a ride on the new boat of one of my commodity-boomed nouveau riche friends." (Phil Haberland, The [Perth, Australia] Guardian Express, March 6, 2007)

Did you know?
Though they can be annoying, people who bludge -- bludgers -- are relatively harmless. On the other hand, a bully armed with a bludgeon -- a "bludgeoner" -- can cause serious harm. In the 19th century, "bludgeoner" was shortened to "bludger" and used as a slang word for "pimp." That "bludger" was certainly a kind of bully, one apparently willing to wield a bludgeon now and then to insure his livelihood. In the early 20th century, "bludge" became the verb for what a bludger does. By then, a somewhat softened "bludger" had appeared in Australia and New Zealand: the pimping and the bullying were eliminated, and the parasitical tendencies reduced to mere cadging or sponging.