Let's just say I've realized certain things recently. All of this advice of positivity, never giving up, and motivational speeches up is encouraging us to play someone else's game by someone else's rules we never got a vote in. We're told we are free and can be ourselves when it is an utter lie.
Here is what another person said
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So much of popular culture and popular thought touts the virtues of being your true self, and being an individual … but if you examine that a little more closely, the unspoken addendum to that is, “… just like millions of others.” In other words, American society has a niche for everyone, including a niche for the niche-less; and if you claim to be an individual, then you have to fit into the socially-approved niche designated as “Individual” — you don’t get to define it, it’s defined for you.
There was a car commercial a few years ago that said, “On the road of life, there are passengers, and there are drivers.” The message: “Buy our car and be a driver, not a passenger.” What they didn’t say is that you were still in the same car, whether a driver or passenger; and you were still driving on a road constructed by someone else, leading to a destination determined by someone else. That’s the American version of “finding your true self” and “being an individual” — just as long as you meet the minimum social requirements of an acceptable “true self” or “individual” as determined by others, of course.
The one thing they would never say? “Get out of the car, walk away from the road, take your own path across all that wild country around you.”
When do we start saying no? No to their bs games, double-think, eye contact, and other crap that hurts us?
Can we define the mountains we wish to define for ourselves? Why do we have to accept the ones defined for us?
Overcome adversity? Why? Especially if others create the standards that play a role in this adversity coming about?
11 Jan 2019, 11:57 am
