Societies these days are becoming more and more self-centric. Very few people today will stand up for someone else. Most of us are happy to maintain status-quo untill it really starts to hurt us. All this leads to the development of a mutually-admiring society where everybody shows they are happy with everyone else. You speak well about me, I speak well about you, you support me here, I support you there, everything is fine. However, Artificiality is not the topic of this blog. But I guess this mindset makes our expressions ornamented, which by the way, is the focus of this text. So today if someone asks "How's the coffee?" and you say, "its good" it actually means "its ok" and you didnt like it that much. You have to say "this coffee is awesome" or "this coffee is amazing" or to add even more "this coffee is out of the world". These words will reflect that you really liked it. But poor word "good" really doesnt represent "good" anymore. "Awesome" was a word which was used to describe things that made your jaw drop. That made your eyes wide in amazement. Something like "Looking at Tajmahal is awesome". We have really taken the steam, the emphasis out of this word because so many things can be "awesome" today. So now not only Tajmahal but your socks can be awesome too. Same is the story for the word "amazing". And "out of the world" ?? Sometimes when somebody uses it, I feel, that the thing in question is so bad that it didnt even deserve the right to be on earth and only some aliens would like it. However, it means the opposite.
To put more force in what we say, we start to use these strong words for expressing not-so-strong sentiments. And with that we not only belittle the importance of that word but also add a fakeness to our demeanor. Something almost all personality development books teach.
