Growth as a word gets heavier the longer you stare at it

Friday morning, coffee going cold while I reread a phrase from a report — 'double-digit growth' — and it suddenly sounded like something you'd say about a child's fever, not an economy. Thirty years at the booth taught me that numbers are just nouns pretending to be precise. What are we actually measuring lately? Anyway, the rain outside stopped right when I noticed it, and I took that as a sign to stop staring at the screen. Probably just the coffee.