i want to send a big shout out to the idiot that invented the phrase, “it is what it is…” this is stupidity at its finest.

my personal opinion is that americans are awkward in social situations. they struggle to converse with other people intelligently about a subject which goes beyond the weather. we default to “hey, how’s it going? cold/nice/hot outside, huh?” and the response is almost always “doing good. yeah great day to sit inside/go for a walk/sit inside.” aside from the obvious grammatical error with a response of “doing good”, we never truly open up to individuals in passing conversation. no one ever responds with “not doing so great, but thanks for asking.” 

i default to a typical, “hey how’s it going?” and before they’re even done saying, “doing good” i’ll instantly say, “that’s great, i’m doing well” just assuming they’ll ask me how i was doing. sometimes, i’ll ask them AGAIN how they’re doing. just for fun. thats when those people are happy they live 4 floors below me…so they can get off the elevator almost immediately.

but never in my life has a phrase been so ridiculous as, “it is what it is…”(which is almost always recited with a large sigh at the end) thank you, oh inventor of this stupid phrase. before you we struggled to explain it to ourselves, we didn’t have an answer for it. but no, thanks to you, we do.

it.