I have been surprised and disappointed too, at how a lot of words that never used to be used by or in front of kids, in the workplace, in one’s everyday encounters with merchants, etc., are now used all the time.
We’ve become an ugly culture in a lot of ways.
I found that very discouraging.
I used to swear a lot in my younger days (Never around my parents or even strangers if I could avoid it) but as I got older, I realized it was an indicator of weakness, so I try to avoid excessive swearing, and most especially, the taking of God’s name in vain, something I did mindlessly as a younger man.
Especially when I was working on cars. My nephew (now a fully grown man in his forties) told his father that everything he knew about swearing he learned from watching me work on my cars. I know that to be no doubt true, because I had a completely full alternate vocabulary, but it does embarrass me now.
It has been a lifelong battle to rid myself of it and I have been largely successful, though as anyone who has seen me bash my shin on a trailer hitch, not wholly successful.