Fantastic, Bombastic

...or maybe somewhat less so.

Sadly, today, I found a word that sounded like a word I could really get behind. This word, I thought, could very well vie for the title "Favorite Word Ever". I liked it's shape on the screen, I liked it's shape in my brain and in my mouth. It evoked "big" and "explosive" for me and I like powerful words. Unfortunately, instead of big and explosive, like, say, my favorite big and beefy man, BOMBASTIC is more of the pretentious and overly-dramatic ilk.

Don't you just hate when that happens? No, I don't expect that everyone gets the high hard one over words. But, I mean, don't you just hate when you get all excited over something? anything? then find out it's all a bunch of hooey?

For instance, I've only ever been on one blind date, but that's the exact feeling I got about halfway through those excruciating 2 hours, 43 minutes, and 17 wasted seconds. After he'd spent the better portion of that time talking about his ex-wife and what a bitch she was ....at some point along the way, to keep myself occupied, I started noticing (by noticing I mean drooling over and groping) all the long-haired hippy dudes. Yeah, blind-date dude was clean-shaven and crew-cutted. Things couldn't help but go downhill from there.

Point being, I was looking forward to the date! My friends said we had so much in common. "Great guy!" "Really sweet" "Makes me laugh". After that kind of build up, I was expecting my dream date! But oh boy was he ever not dreamy!

I do tend to psyche myself up for things, probably more than is a good choice for my sanity. But I can't help myself! I love that feeling of excitement, of antici........................................................PAtion. I like the passion of things. I do! I love it when something can really get me going. Get the adrenalin rushing, my heart pounding, pupils dilated, I'm perpetually ready to ROLL!

Which is why bombastic sounded like such a soulmate to me. It sounds like an adrenalin rush sort of word, right? Alas, Dictionary.com had this entry filed under bombastic:

Bombastic suggests language with a theatricality or staginess of style far too powerful or declamatory for the meaning or sentiment being expressed: a bombastic sermon on the evils of cardplaying.

Any word that's used as an example for (perhaps) a fundamentalist's sermon probably isn't much of a soulmate of mine. Don't get me wrong though! Far be it from me to trash anyone else's religion. My take on your religion of choice is this: if it helps you make better decisions, or helps keep you honest or forthright, and/or especially if it helps you be a kinder and more loving person, then do it! Just don't expect me to jump in there and start speaking in tongues with you. I'm more of a spiritual person myself  (although I understand that men roll their eyes and make that ppfffttt sound - with their lips! - when a woman describes herself so). They say it sounds too new-agey and flakey. Whatever, dude. More likely you know it's a more complicated answer than you bargained for, and it's difficult to maintain eye-to-breast contact when there's a serious discussion in the making.

But I digress.

I don't want this word that implies FIREWORKS but, in reality, is only a couple of 3 year-old firecrackers. I want the bang, not a fizzle!

So, full of woe and wretchedness,

seek and search to agelessness

I'll pack my sack

and pound the dirt

'til perfect word do I possess.

P.S. "The high hard one"? Yeah. I like that euphemism too! :)
P.P.S. With my memory being like it is? Do I really remember exactly how long, down to the second, that date lasted? No. Am I being a little bombastic? Probably.
And P.P.P.S. Meh. I know. That little poem is shit, too. Like the last one. Like PopPop used to say: "Yeah, well."