Comments on: It Is What It Is

By: Tisch

Tisch — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:11:25 +0000

It is what it is (is) the biggest brush off ever. Just accept life and do nothing? I don’t think so! I’m all for the Serenity Prayer, but I won’t ever be a doormat to people’s ignorance, nor accept injustice.

That’s the way I see “It”.

By: Flossie

Flossie — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:20:19 +0000

Oh, my gosh! The comments are almost as powerful, insightful, and humourous as Paul’s article!!

My question, who’s the philosopher/writer that coined the phrase?

Thanks much for the article’s genius and subsequent commentaries.

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:31:11 +0000

Yes that is my new tatoo I had done a week ago up there as the beginning picture. This idea is so important to me I had it put on my arm permanent in a tatoo. The symetry of the glyph is so appealing as is the concept. Existentialist at heart. Each day brings a new adventure! I don’t lose a moment dwelling on the past, and I waste little energy worrying about the future. It is what it is. Pure and simple. Yes I plan, I hope, I anticipate. Yes I remember, honor, and revere the past. I am not wasting energy compensating for either. I am living in this moment, and this moment is glorious.

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:22:44 +0000

I just had a tatoo on my upper left arm IIWII, in deep green for life, standing for ‘it is what it is’. I love the symmetry of the symbol, the meaning of the words, and far from fatalistic point of view, empowers me to shape and change what I can. I am going through my second divorce and third major relationship break up. I thought this was a perfect image to meditate upon and use as a power symbol for my future.

By: The kid from Real Genius

The kid from Real Genius — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:15:54 +0000

The kid from the movie that looked like a girl was Gabriel Jarrett, does he still look like a girl? Well, his eyes are kinda pretty:

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0418909/iid_895080.jpg

By: Earl

Earl — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:15:09 +0000

I thought something was what it was, but then it morphed into something else — kind of like Kenny Rogers’ new face.

Now I don’t know what to think because what I thought I knew turned out to be something that I didn’t know. So where does that leave me?

By the way the young nerd that Kilmer rooms with — who disappeared for like 20 years after that film — he came back as an older NASA nerd in Apollo 13.

By: Lacy

Lacy — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:51:34 +0000

Paul, I love you.

By: Jennifer Lankenau

Jennifer Lankenau — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:44:50 +0000

So, uh…WHAT is it…?

By: Jacquie

Jacquie — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:27:22 +0000

The really scary thing is… I totally understood this. And I’m feelin you on the whole going back and watching Real Genious years later. I did that a couple years ago and I remember thinking it was like watching a whole new (but old) movie.

My favorite quote was from the girl that looked like a boy that might have been a boy posing as a girl….. “She jumped you? And you made it with her?” Let’s see. I was like 10 and my sis was 8 and we were quoting this all the time. My mom would yell at us but it was so fun to say, we didn’t care.

It was what it was! But was it really?

Batting my eyelashes at you (and not just because Kevin acknowledged it would help my chances in winning a signed copy of your book),

Jax

By: christie

christie — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:26:51 +0000

Ok…a whole new saying. Let’s call it a Marcyism for my grandma. She died a few years ago. We have quite a few Marcyisms. Here’s one of the classics…way better than the “it is what it is.”

“Happy as pigs in shit!”

Your gift from my little Italian grandma Marcy, who made the best damn Matzoball soup ever! (Which I’m really craving right about now) Way off subject…I know.
xoxo