Words!
You know what is rare in the world we live in these days? Conversations. Thanks to the gadgets, we don’t even look at each other. Let alone talk. Rarer still are good conversations. Good conversations need good words. If you choose the words carefully, they have the ability to influence people. Carefully nurtured words make poets out of normal people.
Now coming to the way many of us talk these days. There is such a lack of vocabulary. It is either lack of awareness of words or just plain laziness. Here are a few examples:
I was surprised to see that – What the @#$%!
I was shocked to hear that – What the @#$%!
I am proud of your achievement – Dude, what the @#$%!
I was very happy to meet my friend – I met my friend and I was like, what the @#$%!
I met my family after a long time. I was so moved – I met my family and I was like what the @#$%!
My friend gave me a birthday gift. Something I have been wanting for a long time. I couldn’t thank him enough – My friend gave me a birthday gift. I was like what the @#$%!
I got very less marks in an exam I thought I will ace. I was very disappointed. – I got very less marks in an exam and I was like, what the @#$%!
If the above isn’t enough, the below words are used with such carelessness that will put a snail to shame:
Like
Stuff
Whatever
Bro
Dude (To be read as Duuuuuuuudeeeeee!!!)
Imagine all of us talking to each other with a set of 10 words and nothing more to add. How limiting will that be! If this continues, that is exactly where we will land up. Let us please start talking with words and not just lazy profanity.
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