I Am Literally Beside Myself

I am completely sick and tired of everyone using the word 'literally'.

First, there were the people that mixed the word in from time to time. They used it wrong, but you let it slide. They said it was "literally raining cats and dogs". You just smiled politely. You didn't want to be a grammar cop, always correcting everyone. So they kept doing it, more and more.

Then one day everyone started using it wrong almost all of the time, so much so that the dictionary changed the definition so that you can use it either way. Outrageous. But life must go on. Fine. Whatever.

But now it is completely out of control. You can't listen to anyone talk for 5 minutes without literally this and literally that. Enough! It adds nothing additional to the sentence. You don't even care if they're using it right or wrong anymore. You just want them to stop.

So I am pleading with these 'literally' people. Just drop it.

I am literally burning up about this.