Yes, you
read that right. I did not say ‘it is never that serious’. You want to know
why? Because it IS that serious!
Frankly, I think
this ‘it is never that serious’ statement is the most misused in recent times. Most
of the time, I find it online. That moment when someone cracks a joke (which
may very well be the exact opposite of a joke) and gets all defensive with this
tired statement. Or someone
insults you then unleashes the statement, just to make it better, like texting ‘lol’
or ‘J” at the end of a text.
You know
what the problem is, someone along the way came and taught us to think that
serious is a negative word of sorts. If something is serious, it is bad. If you
take something seriously, you are uptight. Like that quote that goes like ‘Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive’. So is life one
big joke?
Why do you
feel the need to tell me it is never that serious? Is it because you actually
know that it is and are also trying
to convince yourself that it is not? If it was not that serious, I’d probably
gather that fast enough and not wait for your cue to know it is not serious.
Sticks and
stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Yeah right. I bet that
is why it is a nursery rhyme, lamest cliché ever.
The next
time you tell someone that it is never that serious, ask yourself why you spend
hours on end on jokes. Why your bundles run out spreading the never serious
talk; and how serious it is that all your time goes into masking seriousness
until it is too late to salvage the lost time.
Then will it
become serious.
It is that
serious.
