No Cursing/Cussing For 1 Week

Why I’m Trying It Out….

My little brother called me today. I hadn’t spoken with him in a few weeks, which was beginning to get kind of weird because we had started talking almost daily for a little while over the phone. He lives about 4 hours away from me. He’s 13. It started as a normal conversation, but then, as I usually do, I dropped an F-bomb.

Turns out his mother was listening the entire time, and was kind of waiting for me to say some “bad words”. I was ambushed! Haha, but really though, that’s what it was. The reason my lil bro hadn’t called me in a while was because his mother didn’t let him/want him to. I suspected it a bit, and I shrugged it off, because he’s still a kid, and that’s his mom, and I respect that. She got on the phone and proceeded to tell me those things and that I should be telling him good things etc, Now, I mentioned to her that I wasn’t using the words in negative context, like one would use a “bad word” to describe someone, but more as a means to put more of an emphasis on what I say. Nonetheless, I told her I understood where she was coming from, and that it’s probably a good idea to stop cussing when speaking with my brother, or anyone for that matter.

A bit about my speech. I curse often. I curse around who ever (although if i catch myself around kids/elderly, I’ll apologize). The majority of the time, every 2 out of 6-7 words is probably a “bad word”. Maybe cursing makes me sound…stupid? Could be. I don’t do it on purpose.

So I thought about it today. I tried being a vegetarian for a week, and that was pretty easy. I accomplished that. I could go vegetarian again if chose to do so. I’m going to to try to stop cursing for the next week. Maybe it’ll help with my social skills, maybe it won’t? Maybe it will hinder my personality and make me not who I am….Lol. Who knows. But the week shall start right now.