PAIN. That is the word of the year for me. While pop culture deemed GIF as their word, I saw it fitting to let my word be pain. This year has been very hard for me. It seems like every two years there is something that just makes them not pleasant. This past year, I experienced a lot of pain. My dog, who I grew up with, just recently passed away. I was not accepted in softball-the one place I felt safe at. Everything just seem wrong with this year but then again everything else was right. It's very hard to explain but I think with pain comes change, whether it be good or bad change.I definitely don't think GIF deserves word of the year especially when it has been around since its been around for more than two years. Correct me if I'm wrong, but should an important word like "word of the year" be something more meaningful and complex? YOLO or GIF are not word that describe what our world has been through in the last year. It describes what teenagers and young adults do on their smart phone. Or it gave them excuses to do something really stupid.
Maybe it's just me and my cold exterior, but I don't agree with these word that were chose for "word of the year." Pain, growth, and change are word that I chose for me. But maybe people don't grow from their pain , or change from their growth. Maybe I'm the odd one out. Fact is I just don't know anymore.
I love the quote picture! And I completely agree, the word of the year should be something more meaningful, and not a pop culture text.
ReplyDeleteThe word of the year shouldn't necessarily be something meaningful or important. It is simply the word people use the most or popularize the most. While I agree that it SHOULD be a word that means something, it is very unlikely that pop culture uses a word meaningful enough to be "word of the year". For me, word of the year is 'stress', but that is the word of my life.
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