CrankyBuddhist » words have power http://www.crankybuddhist.com the learning never ends ... Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:36:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Phrasing http://www.crankybuddhist.com/2009/10/29/phrasing/ http://www.crankybuddhist.com/2009/10/29/phrasing/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:31:36 +0000 cranky http://www.crankybuddhist.com/?p=408 A little more thought on words having power.

I realized that after the age of 50, there seem to be a few American phrases that have dropped out of my everyday usage. Phrases like “Kill me now” when something so boringly unbearable happens. Or telling a friend that “When I start acting geriatric, just take me out in a field and shoot me.”

Nope, those are things I don’t say anymore.

I realized that no matter how long I live, how much time I have left, there isn’t enough life left to be saying such things, in my head, or in public.

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