Strong Words.

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“Hate is a strong word,” a sentence that seems to follow me wherever I go. Creeping around the corners in the hallways, or slithering through the cracks in the floors. It spills from the lips of strangers who pretend to actually care.

I’m tired of it.

Would you rather me play the role of the grinch and use the phrase, “loathe entirely,” instead?

I’m not just going to go around “loathing” things. Hate is a word I use to express my deepest feelings, and my extreme frustration.

The meaning won’t differ just because you can change the words you say. It’s only something we do to make ourselves feel “better” about our word choice.

When someone tells me to refrain from speaking such a “strong word,” I want to laugh in their face, “Yes I said hate, and yes I meant it. And yes. I know hate is a strong word. And yes. I still use it as purposfully as if I was flicking a bug from my arm.”

To most people the word hate is a slap in the face, a dousing of tobasco sauce in their mouth.

Well, I quite like spicy foods, and tend to avoid getting slapped.

Hate is a part of my ever growing vocabulary, and I don’t think it will ever leave. And no matter what you say, I won’t just cease to use it. I can’t just conform to your ways. The phrases intensely dislike, or despise, won’t find their way through my muddled brain in time.

So deal with the fact that I use a “strong word” in my normal every day conversations. Because I hate it when I get interuppted.

13 thoughts on “Strong Words.”

  3. Hate is really not an obscene word, although quite a lot of people treat it that way, And most people mean it when they say hate, so people should probably stop stating the obvious that “hate is a strong word” because we already know, thank you for writing this. (I also like spicy food because it is delicious and I agree with everything you’ve said)

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