Awesome.

"Whenever I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story."

- Neil Patrick Harris in 'How I Met Your Mother'

Well, the moral of the above quote is, we shouldn't delve into the depths of despair for too long, since doing that gets us nowhere. We should, instead, focus on the positives and learn lessons from whatever it is that caused the sadness.

Anyway, that's not what this post is about. It's actually about the word 'awesome' itself.

'Awesome' can be defined as something that fills you with awe, a.k.a. admiration. However, the word has become so common nowadays that it loses its significance. Here, we see that society is so easily impressed that even a free sample in the supermarket can be described as 'awesome'.

Not that I'm against the usage of the word or anything. This is just an observation of mine. Yes, I admit, I don't say 'awesome' a lot, instead preferring other words like 'fantastic', 'amazing', etc. However, in conversational English, not using words like 'cool', 'awesome' and 'chill' makes you sound like an old person who would rather talk like they did 'in the good old days'. 

On the other hand, using less common words in everyday speech also makes you sound educated. And by sounding educated, you win the respect of people around you. And that, people, is awesome.

And you know what else is awesome? These guys.

    

Well, I guess the girl in the red shirt is awesome too, for working. And working ain't easy.

By the way, does anyone else think it's interesting that the word 'awful' carries the opposite meaning of 'awesome'?