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the direction you choose to point right before everything happens to you
means The act of confronting or turning toward something, or the material covering and finishing a surface or edge.
from From the verb 'face,' which comes through Old French 'face' from Latin 'facies' — meaning 'form, figure, appearance' (and later 'the front of the head'). The '-ing' simply turns the act of presenting one's face into an ongoing thing: to be facing is to keep showing your front to whatever's there. The building and sewing senses — a wall's facing, a coat's facing — follow the same logic: the outward-presented surface, the side that meets the world.
- retail trick
- stores pull products forward so shelves look fully stocked
- construction term
- a thin outer layer hiding rougher material beneath
- sewing detail
- fabric folded inward so raw edges vanish
- compass roots
- buildings once oriented to face sunrise and meaning
face-off in hockey — stanley cup playoffs: two players compete for puck control at center ice, thousands of times per season
confrontation at standing rock — dakota access pipeline protests, 2016-2017: indigenous activists faced federal police and private security in north dakota
stare-down in boxing — mayweather vs. pacquiao weigh-in, may 2015: fighters locked eyes inches apart before the bout