Have you ever felt blessed by something and simultaneously felt cursed at the same time? The feeling you get when you see someone doing something that you enjoy seeing but at the same time doing something you don’t like at well.
For all the times you may hear a crowd cheer and then boo shortly after, there is a good chance that they just saw something they considered to be blursed. This post unpacks the meaning and origin of this expression.
Meaning
Blursed simply means: to be blessed and cursed at the same time. We usually see this happen in photos on a popular website such as Reddit and other social media posts. An example of this would be being blessed enough to be able to retake their midterm.
The opportunity to improve your test score is now there, which is a blessing, and the fact that that same individual now must retake their midterm is, in turn, the curse.
The feeling of being blessed and cursed simultaneously can and will happen to everyone from time to time. This phrase is non-gender specific but is strictly situational such as a man lying with his upper body well dressed and, in a snowbank, and the lower half of his body in shorts laying in the grass with the sun beating on only his lower half. The basic concept is having something good and something bad happening at the same time. More information can be found in the video (here).
Example Usage
“I feel so blursed to be able to retake my midterms.”
“I am so blursed that I didn’t get hurt when I wrecked my Porsche!”
“My grandfather is so blursed he didn’t die of that massive stroke.”
“I feel so blursed to be in math class today instead of being sick.”
“That couple that got hit by a car and died, but their baby survived is sure blursed”.
Origin
The first known recorded use of the term “Blursed” was used in 2010 on the internet, which is conveniently where it was assumed to be created. Ever since the creation of this slang, people have been able to much more easily communicate how they feel about conflicting events in their life or simply have found a better way to describe photos that they found to be confusing or conflicting.
Ten years after the creation of the slang term “Blursed” the phrase is more popular now than ever as it is used among the hip community and often used by actors, comedians, and more. This phrase is not only humorous but beneficial to communicating confusing images found on the web and is often used in everyday conversations today.
Phrases Similar to Blursed
Currently, in the English dialect, there aren’t any relatable words for the term “Blursed.” It is a stand-alone word that can help describe a confusing emotion or photo.
- Cursed
- Blessed
Phrases Opposite to Blursed
Currently, there aren’t any phrases opposing the word “Blursed”; however, there are images that help paint a picture of what the opposite of blursed may be.
What is the Correct Saying?
- Blursed – I am blessed and cursed at the same time.
Ways People May Incorrectly Say Blursed
It is difficult to find the incorrect way of using the word or phrase blursed. However, there are ways that mistakes can be made, such as:
- I don’t feel very blursed right now.
- I'm going to have to find a way to become more blursed.
- Going there was such a blursing in disguise.
- If I don’t become more blursed soon, I will die.
Acceptable Ways to Phrase Blursed
- I feel so blursed to have survived that trainwreck.
- You should feel blursed to have the flu and not something worse.
- My grandmother is blursed to have survived that massive heart attack.
- I am so blursed to have the opportunity to retake my midterm exam.
- I don’t know what’s worse, being blessed with beauty or being cursed with insolvency, I’m just blursed.