GAIL'S BLOG

Mox Nix (slang for “it doesn’t matter)

I think we need to adopt the words “mox nix” more. I remember as a child I used to hear this term all the time. Although I am not German it is from the German words “es macht nichts” or “it doesn’t matter”, “it’s not important”. As we travel through life, it is so helpful to mox nix a lot of stuff. It just doesn’t matter. It helps us to stop getting stuck in the grind of something. We go over and over some pretty stupid stuff that really doesn’t matter. We agonize over being right or getting upset that someone forgot to call on time. We live with all of these “shoulds” . We should make a certain amount of money or live in a certain neighborhood or associate with certain people and not with others. We expect to find no dog poop on our lawn (that is a …

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