Some thoughts on a word

Free-associate with me a moment.

The word of the day is: HARD.

As in, "Dude - your life is like, sucking a whole tube. What you're going through is HARD."

Uh.

Can we just quit using this word for that purpose?

It's hardly adequate.

It's lame. And lazy work.

*checks the dictionary*

Mmm. 11 entries.( I'll spare you the definitions - but go check them )

Using the word "hard" implies that if you were better, if you worked at it - it wouldn't exist as a problem.

I swear, the things people comfort others by saying "they're hard" - are not hard.

Or difficult, the other preferred useage.

Try impossible. Or just admit it - there are no words adequate to the situation, and just be honest about it.

Hard.

BAH.

I hate hearing that word used that way.

To me, hard is:

• Cornbread left out overnight without covering it. Emphasis when it's rice left in the dishes.


• DDR when you've never tried it, emphasis when some jerk sets it to "PSYCHO" mode.


• Database programming without a reference manual.


• Admitting I have too many damn books. Emphasis when I try to figure out what to do with them.


But hard is not:




• Ending a relationship.


• Losing a loved one.


• Accepting something awful happened on your watch, and you could do nothing to prevent it. Emphasis when you have to clean up afterward and you can't.


• Watching a life come to an end in a never-ending spiral downwards. Emphasis when it's someone you love more than you own life.

These things are not hard. Exactly what they are is impossible to define - but try.

Because the same word used to define the state Wonder Bread gets into when misused just doesn't compute when it's used to define the state so many of my friends are this morning.

It's not hard. It's not, I tell you.

Some thoughts on a word

Free-associate with me a moment.

The word of the day is: HARD.

As in, "Dude - your life is like, sucking a whole tube. What you're going through is HARD."

Uh.

Can we just quit using this word for that purpose?

It's hardly adequate.

It's lame. And lazy work.

*checks the dictionary*

Mmm. 11 entries.( I'll spare you the definitions - but go check them )

Using the word "hard" implies that if you were better, if you worked at it - it wouldn't exist as a problem.

I swear, the things people comfort others by saying "they're hard" - are not hard.

Or difficult, the other preferred useage.

Try impossible. Or just admit it - there are no words adequate to the situation, and just be honest about it.

Hard.

BAH.

I hate hearing that word used that way.

To me, hard is:

• Cornbread left out overnight without covering it. Emphasis when it's rice left in the dishes.


• DDR when you've never tried it, emphasis when some jerk sets it to "PSYCHO" mode.


• Database programming without a reference manual.


• Admitting I have too many damn books. Emphasis when I try to figure out what to do with them.


But hard is not:




• Ending a relationship.


• Losing a loved one.


• Accepting something awful happened on your watch, and you could do nothing to prevent it. Emphasis when you have to clean up afterward and you can't.


• Watching a life come to an end in a never-ending spiral downwards. Emphasis when it's someone you love more than you own life.

These things are not hard. Exactly what they are is impossible to define - but try.

Because the same word used to define the state Wonder Bread gets into when misused just doesn't compute when it's used to define the state so many of my friends are this morning.

It's not hard. It's not, I tell you.

Some thoughts on a word

Free-associate with me a moment.

The word of the day is: HARD.

As in, "Dude - your life is like, sucking a whole tube. What you're going through is HARD."

Uh.

Can we just quit using this word for that purpose?

It's hardly adequate.

It's lame. And lazy work.

*checks the dictionary*

Mmm. 11 entries.( I'll spare you the definitions - but go check them )

Using the word "hard" implies that if you were better, if you worked at it - it wouldn't exist as a problem.

I swear, the things people comfort others by saying "they're hard" - are not hard.

Or difficult, the other preferred useage.

Try impossible. Or just admit it - there are no words adequate to the situation, and just be honest about it.

Hard.

BAH.

I hate hearing that word used that way.

To me, hard is:

• Cornbread left out overnight without covering it. Emphasis when it's rice left in the dishes.


• DDR when you've never tried it, emphasis when some jerk sets it to "PSYCHO" mode.


• Database programming without a reference manual.


• Admitting I have too many damn books. Emphasis when I try to figure out what to do with them.


But hard is not:




• Ending a relationship.


• Losing a loved one.


• Accepting something awful happened on your watch, and you could do nothing to prevent it. Emphasis when you have to clean up afterward and you can't.


• Watching a life come to an end in a never-ending spiral downwards. Emphasis when it's someone you love more than you own life.

These things are not hard. Exactly what they are is impossible to define - but try.

Because the same word used to define the state Wonder Bread gets into when misused just doesn't compute when it's used to define the state so many of my friends are this morning.

It's not hard. It's not, I tell you.

Ph33r me

I have cardboard shurikan and a glow-in-the-dark crucifix.

I have spent time today at the arcade at the Redondo Beach pier. That's why.

And when it came time to turn in the tickets, I took the grab bag for 10 tokens. The contents also included a bottle of mystery goo (tossed), lame-ass hair sticks (also tossed), a manual embosser which would put a dead animal skeleton on any paper surface (examined, then tossed), a ruddy-duck whirlygig (will be hung outside to see how long it lasts), a '0' birthday candle, a lame set of crayons that stack (pitched) and the above items.

I had more fun laughing at the contents. Honest.

I've spent the day in the company of an old friend, his spouse and their child. One of those phone calls I needed to make last month paid off.

Jim is at work, will be home in a few hours and I am toast juice.

Will examine story in progress for julnawrimo. Promise.

Ph33r me

I have cardboard shurikan and a glow-in-the-dark crucifix.

I have spent time today at the arcade at the Redondo Beach pier. That's why.

And when it came time to turn in the tickets, I took the grab bag for 10 tokens. The contents also included a bottle of mystery goo (tossed), lame-ass hair sticks (also tossed), a manual embosser which would put a dead animal skeleton on any paper surface (examined, then tossed), a ruddy-duck whirlygig (will be hung outside to see how long it lasts), a '0' birthday candle, a lame set of crayons that stack (pitched) and the above items.

I had more fun laughing at the contents. Honest.

I've spent the day in the company of an old friend, his spouse and their child. One of those phone calls I needed to make last month paid off.

Jim is at work, will be home in a few hours and I am toast juice.

Will examine story in progress for julnawrimo. Promise.

Ph33r me

I have cardboard shurikan and a glow-in-the-dark crucifix.

I have spent time today at the arcade at the Redondo Beach pier. That's why.

And when it came time to turn in the tickets, I took the grab bag for 10 tokens. The contents also included a bottle of mystery goo (tossed), lame-ass hair sticks (also tossed), a manual embosser which would put a dead animal skeleton on any paper surface (examined, then tossed), a ruddy-duck whirlygig (will be hung outside to see how long it lasts), a '0' birthday candle, a lame set of crayons that stack (pitched) and the above items.

I had more fun laughing at the contents. Honest.

I've spent the day in the company of an old friend, his spouse and their child. One of those phone calls I needed to make last month paid off.

Jim is at work, will be home in a few hours and I am toast juice.

Will examine story in progress for julnawrimo. Promise.