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The art of showing up without pretending you were always there.
means The act of becoming part of a group, activity, or organization that existed before you arrived.
from From 'join,' borrowed through Old French 'joindre' from Latin 'jungere' — to yoke or bind together, the same root that gives us 'junction' and 'yoke' itself (via a more distant cousin path). The Latin root traces back to a Proto-Indo-European word for binding or connecting, the same deep root behind 'yoga.' So joining has always meant the same thing: fastening yourself to something that was running along just fine without you.
- legal sense
- two parties bound into one obligation
- carpentry sense
- wood pretending it was never two pieces
- social sense
- arriving late and acting fluent in inside jokes
- etymology
- from latin jungere, also root of yoke