Have you just suddenly bumped your head on a wall? Did it hurt
you? Did you shout because of the pain? How about swearing? I know it is
disgrace for others to hear us saying bad words, and first person who’ll get
mad, is our parents. They’ll scold you and tell you that it is bad, that you
shouldn’t said that.
But honestly, every time I swore whenever I get hurt or
distract, it makes me feel better. I don’t know why, I tried to stop it because
I know it’s bad, but does swearing really makes us feel better?
From this one article I red entitled, “Why the #$%! Do We
Swear? For Pain Relief” by Frederik Joelving in scientificamerican.com.
This article said that saying bad words is good for you, it may serve an
important function in relieving pain. They discussed about a study of Richard
Stephens, a psychologist of Keele University in England where they asked
college student to immerse their hands in cold water. And according to their
results, the 67 volunteer students had less pain and endured about 40 seconds
longer. But how come? They said that our brain and emotion is involved with
this. The more we swore, the lesser the pain we feel. As Frederik Joelving
explained, “How swearing achieves its physical effects is unclear, but the researchers speculate that brain circuitry linked to emotion is involved. Earlier studies have shown that unlike normal language, which relies on the outer few millimeters in the left hemisphere of the brain, expletives hinge on evolutionarily ancient structures buried deep inside the right half. One such structure is the amygdala, an almond-shaped group of neurons that can trigger a fight-or-flight response in which our heart rate climbs and we become less sensitive to pain. Indeed, the students' heart rates rose when they swore, a fact the researchers say suggests that the amygdala was activated.”
Sometimes, we don’t intend to say bad words, it just
suddenly comes out especially when we got hurt, because it is one of our
reactions, besides from reacting physically. Same thing with the animals, when
you try to do something that will hurt them, they’ll suddenly react and make
you hurt too, like biting. We may control this and avoid swearing but as the
article said, the pain wouldn’t be lessened. Although, we all know that saying
bad words is very not mannerly.
One article entitled, “Is Swearing Bad Manners?” by Trent Armstrong
in quickanddirtytips.com.
Where he indicates that swearing is bad. Especially in public, it could have a
bad effect for children who heard you swearing, even in other people, younger
or older than you, even with someone who are at your age could lose your
respect and admiration with them. Actually
not only in public, there are no place that suites to swear. Before you say
offensive words, think about what people would think about you, what impact
would it be with us? With others who hears us. This article actually gives tips
of avoiding swearing, it includes some alternative words that people could use
instead of swear words. At least it would harm anyone else anymore. As Trent
Armstrong said in this article, “if you
use profanity to make someone feel bad, you are completely missing the point of
manners in the first place. Manners are about putting someone before yourself
and making him or her feel important. Swearing at or near someone will usually
have the opposite effect.”
For me, I know that profanity or saying bad words are bad.
You could offend someone, affects your personality and impression from others.
But sometimes we are doing this in some reason, maybe we swear at someone
intentionally because it’s in our purpose to offend them, we use bad words as a
power. But be careful, children that hear you swearing could adopt by them,
they’re too young to be part of this bad habits, but younger, older, or as
teenager, there’s nothing difference from that, you’re still saying bad words,
and what is bad is bad.
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