I realize I say the phrase "I don't know" a lot. It's common to say when you don't know something. Life has a lot of unanswered questions. It is easy to say "I don't know" to life's questions and trying figure out one's life. So I thought, well what else could I say instead of "I don't know", so that when I am explaining my life to myself or someone else, the phrase "I don't know" does not have to come up every other word (exaggeration). Here are some suggestions that you could use in replace of "I don't know" You could say:
-I'm not sure
-that is unanswerable at this moment
-I am thoroughly confused about that point
-(complete silence)
-My life is a puzzle that is not put together yet
-No answer is coming to me yet
-Is that a rhetorical question you are asking me? Please be a rhetorical question you are asking....
-Learn how to say "I don't know" in other languages....
-Let me ponder that question for a very long time, enough time that you will get bored and forget you asked me that question
-Only God knows
-Not even my therapist knows
-I am not seeing any light at the end of the tunnel on that question....
-Ask me that question in 10 years
-I might need to go up to a cabin in the woods and ponder that question before I give you an answer
-Ask me that question after I get my third doctorate
-I don't have answers to anything until I have had my 10th cup of coffee...and I am only on my third
-Oh, were you asking me? I totally thought you were asking the person behind me
-Let me take this phone call, it is very, very important and I cannot answer that question, as I have a very important call, not because I do not know the answer to that question, it's just that I have a very important phone call from an important person, and I must answer this call right this moment when you asked me that question. So sorry
I think you get my point. Add on if you can think of some other ideas of what can be said in replace of "I don't know"....I am up for suggestions!
