Arghhhhh why was it so long ago when i last posted

and why didn't i post yesterday

but anyway:

Vulgarities

I don’t know whether to be happy or sad over the fact that since my entry to secondary school, I’ve actually come to embrace vulgarities as part of my life. I’m not going to say that I use them very too often, or anything of that sort, but I must say that I’ve made up my mind with regards to the use of vulgarities.

I think that overtly conservative people who cannot stand the use of a profanity or two in a perfect human and humane way to express one’s pain, desire or any extreme feeling, are hypocrites.

That said, I still am against the abuse of overt use of vulgarities, to the extent that it damages the beauty of the vulgarity (yes I do mean this), and renders it meaningless.

Let’s do this step by step. To be very frank I don’t know loads about vulgarities, each and every word’s etymology, and such, but I think it’s only logical that it was a product of the past that was glorified by the people of today. Contrary to internet memes like “lol”, “rofl”, and et cetera, it does not arise by the lack of words to use and laziness of the brain; rather, it is a proper word, with a proper etymology, definition and context of use.

So why do people oppose vulgarities? It’s an extremely hypocritical thing. They try to encapsulate the immorality, and all inherent badness of humanity in a single word, say f***. Then, they go on and banish it, thinking that it makes them pure people, simply because they think that when things that come out of their mouth is “pure”, they will become pure people. They assume that everything else they do, say or think, is not immoral.

These are people in denial; they refuse to accept the beauty and variety of the English language because of the refusal to accept an inherently sinful self of the human being, and hence, in a vain attempt to chuck this entire to the side and pretend to forget it, they oppose vulgarities.

I don’t think that rationalizing that vulgarities can cause hurt or disrespect to someone else is a proper justification against the use of vulgarities. The entire English dictionary can be used to insult and hurt people.

My stand on this is that vulgarities be used in appropriate context, and with proper definition. Since vulgarities have been used in great literature, of which the respective authors have used the profanity to bring out a certain emotion or theme extremely well, there is no reason why we cannot use it properly in real life. I shan’t elaborate too much here because policies of self-censorship for the sake of ACE points impede me. So go read the dictionary; you know what words to search.

As a whole, I stand for the freedom of expression. Don’t conform to societal conventions for the sake of it; say everything like you are embracing the beauty of the language itself.

However, vulgarities can also result in laziness of cognition. When there is a better, more beautiful word to use, use it. Don’t go “Wtf” every time simply because you feel like it and there’s nothing better to say; in such cases I rather you don’t say anything because it’ll only serve to regress your mental capacity.

So there.

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In any case, yesterday was the 40-page anniversary of Anthology,etc., and it shared my birthday.

A silent night
The unheard crickets, bright
In the unseen light

An empty wind
The dense clouds, in
The weighing of a sin

A hollow heart
Pierced with a cold shard
Emotions, flowing like blood

A silent night, an empty wind;
An empty heart and a broken shard,
They’ll come back when you wake,
The elements of a new heartbreak.