I was driving home the other day from training thinking about the phrase ‘paying attention’. I love history and have always found it interesting how sayings originally developed into common practice. The reason I was intrigued was because of something I noticed during training, but more on that in a bit. Right now I was thinking of the common phrase ‘paying attention’.
I don’t know of any other nouns that have the verb ‘paying’ in front of them that are not associated with anything financial. You don’t, or at least I hope you don’t, go around saying you are ‘paying thought’ or ‘paying observation’. No. The only word not associated with money that I can think of is ‘paying attention’. As stupid as this sounds, I think I figured it out during training.
