So you think that an event is indescribably awesome? You just cant figure out a way to put it into words? I would suggest before you choose to describe it as “epic” that you just pop open a thesaurus and look for another word. No word makes me cring in a nails-on-the-chalkboard way as much as that word. I would liken it to saying that going out to the mailbox to grab your bills was a marathon. Was it really? Did you actually burn all of your body’s glycogen reserves and then endure your muscles themselves beginning to be digested in your last 6 mile push to the destination? No, you didn’t? Well then it was not a marathon was it? That is a topic for another day, back to epic. I mean come on building pyramids was epic, defeating Hitler was epic, Brad Pitt’s bare chest in Troy… was epic…. Your latest escapade at the bar was probably not epic. I will make a concession here, if you want to describe a heated video game competition as epic I will allow it. Seriously though, describing every day goings-on in that way is a dishonor to Beowulf, Hercules, and others who risked their lives and fought big bad monsters to deserve the use of this valuable adjective.
Love,
David
