Forgive Sounds Good

I've been hitting the music vid lists and I've gone to check out "I'm Not Ready To Make Nice" byt the Dixie Chicks. And I like it. I really like it. It's honest; the anger there is real. Not that the emotion in many other music videos aren't, and other songs, but there are so many of the like out there where people use the visual image to promote less than Godly messages. I admire Natalie. She's got guts...for speaking up, even when she would get death threats in reply to her declaration of her beliefs. I like it.

On that note, time to voice a few pet peeves of mine.

"Oh, that's just so gay."

From Wiktionary:

1. happy, joyful, and lively
2. festive, bright, or colourful
3. homosexual
4. ...etc...

I have classmates using that term e'er so blithely and it bugs me. Use it properly. "That's so stupid." Go ahead, sure, fine. But "gay" has a specific meaning and can't you use it for that?

"They did, like, no work at all, just sat around and talked. Like, that's just so gay." ~dryly~ What's so gay? The fact that they aren't working?

Give me a break.

Okay. I'm done ranting for the while...

"I made my bed, and I sleep like a baby

With no regrets and I don't mind saying

It's a sad sad story

That a mother will teach her daughter

That she ought to hate a perfect stranger

And how in the world

Can the words that I said

Send somebody so over the edge

That they'd write me a letter

Saying that I better shut up and sing

Or my life will be over."

"Forgive, sounds good

Forget, I'm not sure I could

They say time heals everything

But I'm still waiting."

~ "Not Ready To Make Nice" by Dixie Chicks