Ever wonder why we have so many words in our English language? Well, ok, me either, but this thought occured to me just 2 minutes ago when I found myself getting very annoyed (annoyed, aggravated, infuriated, irritated, etc) with my roomate. Why/how she upset me for the 100th time today, however, is beside the point. She really got me thinking. What do I really think about her? I mean, honestly. I keep telling myself that I simply dislike her. Yes, that's it! I have very strong negative feelings toward her, and I don't see them becoming positive anytime soon.
Then it occured to me. We've always been told that hate is a verrry strong word and we shouldn't use it unless we really mean it. Up until 5 minutes ago, I really believed this. However, when we dislike something, we are saying we don't like it...correct? Well when I hate something, I don't like it! I completely understand that maybe hate comes off as a strong word, but that's only because this is what we have learned in the last. Well, I have some news for you! If you don't like something, you just don't like it. That's the way it is. Sure we think we have different levels of dislikes for things, but the fact of the matter is, you either like something or you don't...end of story!
After thinking of this for a few minutes, I ponder the question of why we use all these different words to describe one feeling. My first thought was that we all just want to be English scholars so we use lots of vocabulary, but that's totally irrelavant, so I disregarded that one. My next thought made a little more sense. I don't know about the rest of you, but I use words like dislike to replace words like hate only because they make ME feel better about saying them. "Of course I don't hate anybody. Hate is a very strong word. I just dislike them." This is one of my favorite quotes...by me that is. I never liked saying I hated someone because that would be just plain mean. Dislike, on the other hand, sounds a bit less pessimistic (nagative, cynical glum, etc), don't you agree?
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