My
generation of Americans has a really weird way of communicating. Most
of the time we lace what we are saying with sarcasm and end up saying
the opposite of what we mean. I don't know how this came to be, but
if you look around I really think you'll find it's true.
The
other day I was sitting on the couch with Grayson. There were some
boxes I was organizing behind the couch. Being his typical
rambunctious self he knocked about half of them over. I looked right
at him and said, “Great job son.”
Why
in the world did I say that?
How
is he supposed to process that information. I said the exact opposite
of what I meant. Sarcasm is weird.
I've
also noticed a lot of chatter on the internet about this. I think the
generation coming up is getting sick of this mode of communicating
and I think they are right. At it's root sarcasm is just a way to
protect ourselves from having the wrong opinion or from having to
actually tell someone something difficult. If we are being sarcastic
and are called on anything we just say,”Hey man I was just messing
around. I was just joking.” As fully realized mature adults
shouldn't we take ownership of our thoughts and opinions and present
them in a clear loving way? Shouldn't we mean what we say and say
what we mean?
That
sounds hard, maybe I'll just keep being snarky about everything.
