The Beauty of Uncommon Words

I think that the crass language we hear so often today is simply a matter of an underdeveloped vocabulary. Choosing four-letter expletives as recourse to express our frustration with something is too easy, and too abrasive. There are many, less common words that adequately communicate our frustration, while keeping a comic element to alleviate the situation and help us to laugh at ourselves. 

Think of “nincompoop.” Or “dunderpate.” Try tossing those out the next time you’re completely maddened by the actions of the car in front of you during your morning commute. 

There. Now didn’t that feel better? 

Books and music are best chosen by recommendation, because there’s something more organic about the process that way…more human. No algorithm will ever generate a suggestion as good as a friend who has just listened to or read something amazing.

Each time we make the choice to show kindness…to not react in anger, to treat the waiter as a human being instead of an object, to consider another’s needs before our own…we make a difference. The change is incremental, but redemptive. May our choices be kind ones.