epic

ep•ic
adjective
1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.

What the eff is with the overuse of the word epic? I’ve been noticing this the past couple of months, and its overuse and misrepresentation has officially surpassed my annoyance of lol. It seems like these days anything can be “epic.” I was driving in Jersey this past weekend and saw a Budweiser billboard with some stupid slogan (and I cannot remember it) suggesting that drinking the brand is an epic event. What the fuck. Drinking Budweiser, let alone any beer, unless it has some magical power, should never be considered epic.

I’ve always loved the word epic and I just can’t take that people are just butchering its meaning and well…value. I just want this word to be savored and used up only in moments of complete awesomeness, or otherwise, “impressively great” experiences. Eating a cheeseburger from In and Out, doing a backflip from the highdive, or riding the Bolt Bus for the first time, should never be considered epic. Anything that is ordinarily mundane cannot be fucking EPIC.

This goes to show that the English (or just American) language is just fucked. People throw around adjectives like its nobodys business. I am definitely at fault, for sure. The other day I described breakfast as “pretty much the most amazing experience of your adult life.” I highly doubt this was actually the case. I don’t even know how to continue to describe this phenomenon, and I don’t think there’s any turning back, but pretty soon it will be impossible for us to create a connection with the use of words or adjectives.

So…if you are reading this, out of the kindness of your heart, please save the use of the word epic for something really fucking awesome, something that makes your life different, or something truly special. Otherwise…you are just, what you would call, and epic fucking fail.