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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 4500267, member: 7511"] Growing up in an Italian-American family, I probably heard the phrase, “It is what it is” a thousand times from relatives and friends. The person who said it most frequently in front of me was my father, who dropped out of HS to fight in WWII, married his HS sweetheart (mom) after the war, worked hard his whole life to give his kids a better life than he had and never missed an opportunity to laugh. I’ve tried to adopt my father’s philosophy of life, although not quite as easily as he seemed to. I use the expression, “It is what it is” every opportunity I get, and while it may not always fit the situation at hand, it’s always comfortable to say it, kind of like a mantra designed to sooth the soul. [/QUOTE]