Transcript of “Channel Fever”
Here’s a cool term that you might want to extend as a metaphor in your own life.
And that’s the term channel fever. Channel fever refers to the feeling that sailors get when they’re nearing home. You know, they’re so anxious and excited, and but they’re not quite there yet.
So is this the English term? So it’s English sailors in the English channel, but not quite to the port yet. Originally. Yeah. Yeah. Probably, probably arose during World War II, you know, coming back across the channel and and seeing those white cliffs of Dover or something.
Channel fever. Channel fever. When anything is almost over, you know, you’re experiencing that channel fever.
Yeah. We’ve used, we’ve extended the term senioritis in our house for that.
There you go.
Senioritis is when you’re in high school and you’re almost done, and you just don’t care about grades or class or anything about ready to graduate.
You could have senioritis for almost ready to depart for a big trip. That’s senioritis for the trip. You’re ready to go.
Ready to go. Even though it’s days away, you’re not paying attention to what you’re doing because your mind is already at the destination.
