Oh My Dear! Never!

The word DEAR has somehow annoyed me to no end.  It doesn’t matter who it comes from, a girl friend or a guy friend or a stranger, especially more when it comes from a stranger. My instant reaction to such an addressing is ‘I am NOT your dear!! (Unless you mean a deer).

The word annoys me even when I read it in comments written by unknown people on unknown blogs or profiles. I have whatsoever no relation with the addresser or the addressee except that I am a passive reader; and yet it annoys me!

So I pondered for reasons, I read conversations where ‘dear’ was profusely used. I tried not to get irritated and actually understand what it makes me feel. Well it makes me feel lot many negative feelings than just irritation. Firstly it creeps me out, it scares me, and it creates suspicion in my head in regards with the writer’s intention behind such casual proximity.

I shivered to know that a word which technically means ‘precious in one's regard’; to me means ‘threat’.

In a real conversation the threat is still minimal and somewhat calculable. But in a virtual conversation it’s a complete NO!

Even the mere utterance of this word to me seems like a practice of forced proximity that I totally detest.  When strangers or formal acquaintance use this word they straight away go into my mental black book.

It’s not really the word but more of its sound or the hidden sarcasm and malice in it. I vaguely remember myself using this word while growing up. Somewhere along the way I realized people use it more as sarcasm like in ‘my dear! That’s not how you do it’; where ‘dear’ would be highly stressed upon. The word is also profusely used by online flirts; ‘hey deeeeear, how are you!’  ‘Oh dear! That such a beautiful picture of yours’, ‘no deeeear’.

BLAH!!! PUKE!!!

Ohhh so that what it is! That’s why I so dearly hate the word ‘dear’; because it has been polluted by its abundant and meaningless usage all over the internet by desperate jerks leaking vulgar disparateness.

So here’s my relatively subtle warning: ‘you call me deaR? I call you deaD!’