Sarahphim's World

Today Sarahphim is pretty gosh darn good. Chocolate at mom and dad's: check. Leisurely Saturday morning and afternoon ferry commute back: check. All in all a pretty damn good day. I have been thinking about swearing. I once said that when I hear people swear my opinion of their intelligence drops dramatically. Which is some times true. But I know several highly intelligent people who swear and it doesn't phase my opinion of them at all. Lord knows I swear so it's not like I think I'm better than swearing people. It just that there is a difference between "F**k! I lost my keys" or "F-ing stupid door jam did you not see my toe?" as opposed to "you f-ing mother f-er why can't you ever do anything right." And then I thought, that doesn't really denote intelligence, rather than what I can only say is civilized versus uncivilized. But then my head starts to hurt from all that over thinking the issue. I figure, words have power. It is wise to use them to build things up and people too. So if you swear and a person is made to feel small and um and or, insignificant, then that is pretty barbaric and uncivilized. Might as well go live in a cage and eat bananas. Though I'm pretty sure you'd find some gorillas even there that would totally out class you. If you swear because it releases pent up anger and frustration that needs to come out that makes sense. But what I hate most is people who just use it to sound vernacular slang jargon. If you don't want a job in the world of suits, then fine talk as nasty as your bad ass allows. Other wise don't complain about the haves versus the have not, I bet all the haves have impeccable speech and wield their vocabulary with power and skill. But now I know I'm judging and coming from one not above the f-word I don't mean to put swearers down. I'm just saying words have power and we have an obligation to be impeccable with our speech. Most of the time, when small children aren't about, and my toe is safe inside my boot.
Sarahphim signing off.