I am 525% sure that my mother has never uttered the words "I literally hate everyone".
Maybe, at one point, she found herself disparaged by the state of humanity — sad about a series of encounters — burdened by the unbelievable idiocy of those around her.
But I can guarantee that to verbally state the words "I literally hate everyone" out loud has never crossed her mind.
And yet, on average, I would say that these words are spewed from my mouth roughly 5-50 times a day.
[[[Usually while talking to my mom.]]]
"I literally hate everyone" is followed closely by "I want do die", which is followed by claims that an individual is "the worst" and (if I'm feeling particularly basic) a well-timed "I can't" to put the icing on the proverbial self-pity cake.
IN SUM: My linguistic repertoire has become disparagingly infiltrated by melodrama to the highest degree.
IN SUM: My linguistic repertoire has become disparagingly infiltrated by melodrama to the highest degree.
So what's the deal? Why am I so negatively hyperbolic?
Sure, I'm busy, I'm tired, I live in a bunked bed in a crappy E. village apartment which I don't make enough to pay for, I don't remember what warm food tastes like, and I've gained roughly 40 lbs due to stress eating & drinking rendering 95% of my clothes unwearable — the remaining 5% leaving me looking like I'm perpetually wearing pajamas and blankets — but PLEASE.
I am not dying (knock on Ikea wood), I am not working in a factory, I am not cleaning up after inmates, or starving in a 3rd world country, or dealing with the stress of my transgendered father appearing on the cover of a global magazine.
So is there really any excuse for the overwhelming degree of misanthropy?
And why is it so common amongst our generation?
Has the preponderance of self-indulgent misery propound on the internet ("To all the haters out there....") lured us into a sense of complacency with our own discontentness?
Or, opposingly, have the overwhelming achievements we now see in others' lives made us think that much worse of our own?
Are we slaves to negative groupthink,
debilitating comparisons,
C. none of the above,
D. all of the above?
Whatever.
All I know is I literally hate everyone.
Cheers.
This is so true it hurts. I don't even really have anything witty or interesting to say in response. I am completely flummoxed that even those of us who are conscious and try to be thoughtful STILL speak like this. What happened to us?!
ReplyDeleteTake care xx