Friday Randomness

See, I've been dancing around it, but finally admitted to myself that "emo" had me confused. I'm pretty darn good at figuring out what a word means from context. And I can tell you for certain, that scoring in the 99.5 percentile on your vocab test in gifted and talented class...will get you beaten up, even if it is by fellow geeks, and thus lame and barely painful.

But "emo" had been eluding me. I felt that it was like agita...that took a route through heartburn, but essentially means what it sounds like, an exotic, hip, ethnic, or nostalgic (depending on who you are) way of saying agitated, derived from the original Italian...but emo seems to be more than that -- a style, music, people...

It just sounded more involved than just some post-goth Ophelia-y angsty panty-twisting.

And it is. But for every definition, for every labeling, there's someone in the middle of it who swears that "they've" got it all wrong. Screw it. I no longer feel bad. It may devolve into whatever it wants -- I'll pick up the flag and fight for a word's proper use, but not if people can't figure out what the hell it really is, anyway.

I can release my previous "maybe I'm just a geezer and don't get it" feeling. At least for this one instance.

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