"I love you" and "I’m sorry." Do you know how many times a day I hear these two phrases?
There was once a time when "I’m sorry" actually had some weight behind it. Now people say it after everything, and no one really means it. "I love you" used to be a powerful statement only said when you truly loved someone. Now you would hard pressed to find someone or something you don’t love. These phrases have become so overused that they have lost their power and meaning.
"I’m sorry" used to be a truly sincere apology. Now it is almost like "sorry" is just a natural reaction to anything. It is sad because there is no sincerity behind it anymore. No one means it. They just say it because they feel they have to or it is required. We have beaten and abused I’m sorry so much that I don’t think we know how to give an actual apology anymore.
I honestly cannot count the amount of times I hear someone say they love someone or something. Do we really know what love is anymore? Love, which used to be such a strong word, is now just as weak as any other word. We have used this word so much that it means nothing to us anymore. I understand that there are some things that we do in fact love, which is great, but we don’t actually love all the things that we say we love. We just through love around like it isn’t supposed to be special.
My problem isn’t that we use the words. My problem is that we don’t mean them when we actually say them. I wouldn’t mind hearing "I’m sorry" or "I love you" if it was something that we actually meant. We have become so numb to what we are saying that we don’t care about what we are saying. Our words don’t mean anything anymore. I don’t think there is a way to fix this because it is something that we are so used to. We have gotten in the habit of just saying these statements so blindly that we don’t remember that there is a deeper meaning behind these words. I am just as guilty as anyone else. I think bringing attention to this is the first step if there is one in restoring the meaning behind these words.
