I. Dot.

I. Dot.

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That's how my son pronounces "idiot".

I like it because it softens the blow so to speak.

Words like idiot, bitch, asshole, dickwad, and the infamous "mf" are strewn about day and night like so many thoughtless mantras embedding our thoughts, intentions, and, why, the very fabric of our lives.

Where does the word idiot come from anyway?

Origins - A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Eric Partridge says that idiot comes from the Greek word "idios" meaning "proper or peculiar to oneself, private" and it goes on to define the Greek word "idiotes" which means "a private person (not holding public office) hence an ignorant person".

Well there's some food for thought, I'd say. How many derogatory connotations are inherent in the Greek meaning of the word, coupled with it's common usage today?

Now let's look a little deeper in a general sense.

Not only does every word have a vibration, every letter has a vibration.

When we spell a word we are indeed casting a spell; that's why it's called "spelling".

Cymatics, Wikipedia says, is "...from Ancient Greek: κῦμα, meaning "wave", is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenny (1904-1972), a Swiss follower of the philosophical school known as anthroposophy."

There are lots of videos online demonstrating via Cymatics how sounds and tones produce pictures as well as letters from root languages revealing how those letters are vibrations, (and by stringing them together in words we're creating more complex vibrations).

If thoughts, (and feelings in my estimation), create our lives we seem to indeed be re-creating our lives everyday with our word choices. As such it might behoove us to understand the words we use so flippantly that our children pick up and also use to create their lives in the model their parents and the people around them are giving them.

Are we really all idiots, assholes, bitches, cunts and dicks? And if so, could we be disturbing and distorting the original vibrations those words carry, and thus be disturbing and distorting our selves, our lives and the lives of our offspring?

I tell my son and his friends that our bodies and our body parts are sacred. I mean, isn't it said that our bodies are the Temple of God? The lowest spinal vertebra is called the sacrum - meaning a sacred place. Treating our bodies (and their magnificently movable parts) as sacred allows them to be that which they are designed to be. Treating them as worthless in a derogatory manner defines them as such while distorting their original design.

Is this what we want?

Do we want to shout "idiot" at our fellow humans struggling to heal from the massive traumas humanity has endured, or, reversely, title ourselves "idiots" when we're not doing something we think we should be doing?

Is it helping?

I like to laugh. Many comedians get paid lots of money being self-effacing or calling others out in a clever manner. I laugh at funny jokes of that nature and God knows we all need to laugh more.

So, for me, it's not black or white. I mean, when I'm in a rage you can be sure all kinds of "colorful" language spews forth from my volcanic mouth.

But for certain, I reconsider, reevaluate and rewrite my word choices in defining the reality I'm experiencing into something that feels good to me, and honors the humanity that's learning to evolve what's been an excruciatingly painful road, even if we all are f*cking idiots.