The First Impressions - Essay Example

One can walk a city street anywhere and hear phrases peppered with the "F-bomb" and whatnot. For example "I need cash but I can't find a F------ ATM machine". I go about my daily business without having to caution myself in cursing thus this assignment was not one that I found to be challenging. I did note, however, that I was intensely alert to those cursing around me. I wonder what would happen if people actually listened to themselves speak. We have a moment, and only a fleeting one after that first impression, to alter it.

After one looks at us, they hear us speak. We usually use our voices to deliver a message to others. That message can be taken as true or false. That message can be delivered by one who is deemed intelligent or intellectually challenged. Cursing by no means conveys an intelligent thought. Some think that by adding a curse word they are delivering the word to follow it with an emphasized delivery, but it is not so. People like myself do not find ourselves amused or threatened by one who curses.

Curse words are nothing more than wasted air and their effect can only be described as revolting. I don't have to refrain from cursing because I find the practice to be disgusting and a sign of stupidity. Children pick up cursing from their parents. Thus parents would do well to recognize that they cannot expect society to embrace their adored poppets when nothing more than filth sputters from their mouths. Likewise in the realm of business. One is not inclined to enter into business or trust someone that consistently curses.

It is a sign of vulgarity and crudeness that business people should not expose others to. I myself have been completely aware of myself recoiling in horror as the direct result of a dropped curse in the middle of a conversation. Moreover, I am not embarrassed to admit that many first dates did not progress into second dates as the direct result of language chosen by my date. Today it seems that society is only too easy to drop curses wherever they see fit and I find myself in the minority of those who choose not to curse.