“It is what it is.” Where the heck did that come from? I hear it all over the place and see it written in business communication as if it is stating something definite. Are we that ambiguous? Saying, “it is what it is,” is the equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and saying, “Eh…I don’t really care. Why should I try to change it?”
“When I was your age…” Were things really that much different? We didn’t lock our doors…we left the keys in our cars…we played in the streets…we didn’t have to worry about “that” kind of thing…we didn’t have computers…microwaves didn’t exist… I like to think that I was safer when I was a child. I just have a different perspective now. Bad things happened when I was growing up. It didn’t bother me because I was a kid. My parents were the ones worrying. Now, I worry about my kids. They are careful and know not to go into a stranger’s house and to run if someone pulls up next to them in a car but they still have an innocent view of life. Maybe the reality of life just hasn’t hit them yet.
Are there sayings that bother you?
2 comments:
I hate when people are trying to find something, and after they finally find it they say: "it was the last place I looked."
Well, of course it was the last place you looked. You wouldn't keep looking after you found it, would you?
This one goes along with, "in the year..." I heard it twice on the way to work this morning: "In this day and age..." Yeah, we are soooo much better than we were in the last day and age.
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