Food for Thought

Today is one of those incredibly long days that I spend at school. I have a three hour break and in that break I work on homework and I also have an opportunity to people watch. I am fascinated by the way people carry themselves as well as the way they communicate with their peers. In my observations today I have seen a vast number of people cursing. While I understand that oftentimes cursing is used due to lack of vocabulary, all the same it bothers me. It seems like new freshmen are using these “grown-up” words as a means to impress their fellow college students. Many times the words they use don’t even make sense when used in the contexts in which I have heard them today. In fact it has become so frustrating to me that I have put in my ear phones just to drowned it out. I have often wondered who deemed these words “bad words” and the thought still occurs to me that in a world vastly different from the one we live in today, that some person began using a word. This word while it may have begun as an everyday word like “hello” or “wow” has over time become skewed to mean something totally different. Perhaps in that same world a person who loved words as I do, began looking for a word to describe their feelings of frustration or hurt. When such a word could not be found this same person decided to create one, thus resulting in one of the choice verbs and nouns I have heard today. I also wonder at what point did certain words become “dirty”. There are words found in God’s word, that I feel bad reading to my third grade Sunday school class because in today’s society they have changed and been deemed “curse words”. Understand that my random musings are just that random thoughts pouring forth from my head and I type. I am curious to research my questions, but at this present time I feel like I have enough learning and researching to do.

On a side note I would like to give a shout out to my precious mother. Today is her birthday and I am super glad that she was, in fact, born. My mamma is crazy beyond belief and I love her every day for it. She has taught me so much in life, including not to say the words I referred to earlier. I can’t imagine what life would be like without her and I am so thankful to not only call her mother, but also friend.