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It’s a wonderful, not amazing, life

Daily writing prompt
What is a word you feel that too many people use?

There are trendy phrases that get over used and I like it when I see that someone has made a list of them and called them out on social media. For example “So, I did a thing”. Just like the trendy baby names, let’s kiss this stuff goodbye, it’s sooo last year.

But I fall into these traps too and it’s difficult to get out. The word nice…it’s so mundane. Ughhh like could you think of a worse word to describe something? Yet I use it. The word amazing…I’m so guilty of it. But I literally find things amazing and have to say it. I need to look up a synonym. It has to be a word that sounds like me though, something I would say. Believable.

Lastly, the word awesome. I say this entirely way too much and I realize it. I know it, I’m owning it. I just can’t find a replacement that rolls off tongue though. I can’t say fabulous. I can’t say wonderful. I don’t know what to replace it with.

This is something I should figure out before I go back to work next week.

I love words and I love it when someone uses a word I don’t know and I have to google it. You would think my vocabulary would reflect that a little more.

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Taz sent me this picture yesterday, so adorable….he’s probably 4 and Cordelia a baby….look at how she looks at him lol….I was so much more au naturel back then!

15 responses to “It’s a wonderful, not amazing, life”

  1. Not all who wander are lost Avatar
    Not all who wander are lost

    So true. Great pictire:)

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  2. Not all who wander are lost Avatar
    Not all who wander are lost

    Picture

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  3. How about fantabulous?

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    1. Hmmmm…☺️

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      1. OK OK. That might get old quickly.

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      2. 😬

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    1. It’s a great word but it’s not me 🤷🏻‍♀️

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      1. Hmmm, back to the drawing board… 😎

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      2. Lol it’s going to be difficult!

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  4. I tend to use amazing, awesome, and fantastic too much ….

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    1. Yeah we gotta smarten up lol

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  5. That look! Quite the photo.

    It would be great to have the creative energy to reach a little deeper into the bag of words and phrases more often, but I do like hyperbole and words that over-spill their contexts! Amazing is over used, but it’s also just a fantastic word. Like many things, there’s also a balance around not being pretentious, so baseline words are pretty okay as long as one ventures out occasionally too.

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    1. Maybe I should bring marvellous back?! I’d need to practice though 😂

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      1. Marvelous is a good one, or ‘splendid’, etc. I just fear we’ll all sound as though we stepped out of another era at some point. 😀 I already hear Judy Garland’s voice when I use ‘wonderful’.

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