Thoughts On “YOLO”
….I KNOW I ONLY LIVE ONCE.
I’ve known it since I was born.
People have been saying it…probably since the beginning of time.
“You Only Live Once” It’s not just a cliche, it’s a fact. That quote probably came from the middle ages, namsayin’. Maybe even older than that.
Some cavemen that saw the ocean for the first time probably had a buddy that looked at it and had no idea what it was, but he said “You only live once” to his boys in his native tongue and jumped in.
Point is, this shit isn’t a new saying. Just because some rapper turned it into an acronym doesn’t make it new. You fucks already knew you only live once. Everyone knows it. But now since you turned 4 words into 4 letters, shit is an entirely new phrase and its status as a cliche is no longer.
STOP IT, SON. Stop using YOLO like you’re about to do something dangerous as shit. Doing the cinnamon challenge (which btw, is also another dumb-as-fuck thing this new generation made up) and saying “YOLO” beforehand is not an acceptable way of using the term. Maybe if you saw a dragon about to attack a town full of innocent women and children and all you had on you was a switchblade, and before you charged to your death you said “YOLO”, that might be acceptable.
Actually no, fuck it. Either use the entire term in an appropriate situation, or realize that YOLO does not change the fact that the phrase is a cliche and don’t use it at all.
And I hope you choose the latter.
/endrant
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