The Newest Filipino “Curse” Word

Social media provided netizens an option to be entertained, communicate, learn, and share whatever they want.

It brought much accessible entertainment, it builds a way for family members to continuously update their loved ones who live from far away, it made daily news and random things easily acquired, and it created a platform for netizens to tell their stories with just a push of a button.

Sharing has two categories: happy and sad vibes

Sad vibes

It is when a netizen posts something that triggers sorrowful emotions such as the death of a loved one, calamities, heartbreaks, bitter truths in life, etc.

Instinctively, when people see these kinds of posts from others they commonly say two things: “poor them” or “I’m grateful that it is not me”. It is because they feel blessed knowing that they are in a better situation than that and/or feel empathic towards them.

Happy vibes

It is when a netizen posts something that triggers cheerful emotions such as spending time with family and friends, fitness goals, relationships, job promotion, house tours, before-and-after situations, etc.

When people see these kinds of posts from others, they feel two things as well. They either feel inspired, motivated knowing that it is possible or it puts a person into comparison mode.

In every success post, there’s the slightest part where a person starts envying others. With that, Filipinos created the most subtle curse word deeply rooted in envy…

“Sana all”

It came from “sana lahat meron” meaning that “it would be great if everyone have it too” or “I wish everyone have it”. Saying “sana all” is boldly implying that a person is envious of someone else’s success.

People don’t say “sana all” whenever they see sad news. People only say “sana all” when they also want what others have.

Knowing that Mozart created his first piece when he was less than 10 years of age, knowing Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire in his 20s, knowing that some of your friends are better than you, it makes you want to say that curse word.

“Sana all!”