Mercurial Flow

@Inlemay (17712)
South Africa
April 11, 2016 3:14am CST
I personally haven't heard this word used in years. Mercurial is such a great description of a human - which means we are actually all temperamentally - multi faceted. How do you fit in the design of things - Are you volatile or maybe a little capricious? Excitable like me or sometimes fickle like only a woman can be? Maybe a little changeable or unpredictable taking life one day at a time, or even one second at a time! Erratic like a quicksilver teenager or inconsistent like a hormonal young boy? A little unstable, unsteady, fluctuating, ever-changing, kaleidoscopic, fluid, wavering, vacillating, moody, flighty, wayward, whimsical, giddy, impulsive; or any other wonderful adjectives to describe your state of mind or your HUMANNESS? " "We are too mercurial for our own good." ~ Erin Morgenstern We are only but human, every day and with every circumstance - we are Mercurial!!
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
11 Apr 16
today I am mostly calm, and methodical. I am fine with an awake and stable day
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
12 Apr 16
@Inlemay today its a depressy one
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
@Jessicalynnt I am sorry to hear -
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
Oh I love it that you found your mercurial flow for yesterday, I am sure it will change tomorrow
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Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
11 Apr 16
I have only ever known the word used in the reference to the element itself.
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Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Apr 16
@Inlemay Apparently so, but I had never encountered the term before.
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
@Asylum that is strange - I use it often . . . or when necessary to apply (mood swings)
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
I think you have mercurial moments somewhere that balance the ebb and flow of your life?
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Marie
@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
12 Apr 16
That is a new word for me
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John King
@ison_1 (1240)
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11 Apr 16
I'm from Earth, not Mercury.
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John King
@ison_1 (1240)
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12 Apr 16
@Inlemay yep...that sounds about right!!
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
Mars rather - but transported back to Earth has your hard labour penance
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Canadian Archer
@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
12 Apr 16
I am more or less, well, chill-unless I'm having a stressful day in which case...well, I'm still pretty chill:). I think its more or less because I get so busy and I deal sometimes with ppl in crisis, and in some way I had to learn to be grateful for the moment in life...and a lot of the time I have to be calming for people and reassuring...in some way I think that kind of shaped my mentality a little. Btw, I'd never heard that term before, but I actually like it a lot:)
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
I hope you will be able to use the word you have just been introduced to - its part of our everyday moving moods
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381905)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Apr 16
What a magical lot of adjectives! You have some great words there - not sure what one applies to me.
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
there are so many - you can choose every hour which one you want to be! That's the Grand thing about every individual - we have the choices
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381905)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Apr 16
@Inlemay That's very true. I could choose a different one for every hour and then be 'inconsistent' overall. :)
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
12 Apr 16
@JudyEv Go be mercurial Judy!!
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Morley Hunt
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
11 Apr 16
You brought to mind, with you description, a day in high school when we were allowed to play with a bottle of mercury. What a fascinating substance. What we did with it , would never be permitted in the classroom today.
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