Words That Make Us Crazy(er)
Author: Bill Garwood
Words that Make Us Crazy(er)
Welcome to the week after Rodeo, onward into pre-autumn and Fall Fest season!
I am reminded by people talking everywhere that there are certain words or phrases that are annoying. Most of the time, the first one that came out a few years ago was “doable”: something is able to be done, or we can do. I remember I heard it on a commercial for chocolate pudding, a young kid said that’s “doable”. I didn’t even know this young man, but I felt an urge to slap him.
The word that we hear far too much these days is “influencer”. What? Oh, I see you think anything you do or wear makes everybody else want to do or wear. Why? Because you are semi-famous or, at least in your own mind, we should all just follow whatever you say. The old phrase “legend in their own mind” comes to mind. It seems like anyone who has access to television or the internet becomes aniInfluencer. Again, why?
Many people are just so involved with the rich and famous that, in their own minds, they feel they are far more important than the rest of us working folks.
Naah, I don’t think so! Just because you feel so self-important, you feel everyone must have the benefit of your knowledge or fashion sense. Wow! Some ego you have there.
The folks on most of the TV talk shows have proven they don’t have a clue about average people working for a living. They seem to think that if they are young and fairly good-looking, they should be able to give life advice. Even though most of them haven’t been alive for more than 16 years. Ok, guru of the airwaves, tell us what we should be doing with our lives.
I know I’m ranting again. Another word coming around lately is "trending". If someone says they have found the best new suit or hair treatment, they try to make sure everyone thinks it is a worldwide trend. And everyone MUST go out and buy this marvelous new thingamajig. Sorry, I have too much living/work to do that to follow a teenager’s advice on life that I have lived for oh, say 50 years.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for being confident about our own lives. This is a good thing, as long as we can realize we don’t need to tell the world this is what we are doing and that everyone should want to do it too! Be happy, be confident. It’s like the old 60s saying, “do your own thing”. But when your thing isn't their thing, it’s somehow wrong? Nope.
I won’t necessarily lead, but I don’t feel any need to follow everyone’s ways. I could get lost, and that is a definite possibility! Stay well, oh my people, enjoy what cool weather we have, and prepare for what’s coming.
Excelsior.
