The Pessimist & the Power of Positive Thinking
A page in the diary "Is the plural of Precipice "Precipi"?"
Written by akita1970 28. Apr 2008 05:57 PM
Whilst at work today I noticed a colleague had added a popular quote to his email auto-signature. I cannot get it or it's implications off my polluted foetid brain.
"That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger"
what plastic dogshit.
I can think of a dozen things that disprove it.
Marriage for a start. Work/life imbalance, high-carbohydrate diets, unrealistic and unachieveable goals of sobriety and sanity... all of these things fall into the category of not being directly fatal but nonetheless adding to the ever increasing pile of things to loath about myself.
The self-help gurus and pop-psychologists out there would say: "write down everytime you feel good and WHY you think you felt that way." Hell if I actually feel good one SURE way to make sure I get out of that good mood quickly is to turn intro-spective on the spot and start writing....reinforcing how rare that good feeling was and reminding me once again of how different "normal" people feel. just dandy that little tactic.
Well gee Sigmund, if it was as easy as focussing on positives and ignoring negatives your life's work wouldn't be so frigging popular would it??
What power does one individual have to change when so much of what influences us is outside of our control? What good does being positive do when the world is overwhelmingly negative? I realised that the only people who can remain positive are most likely lying about or they are truly, truly stupid.
Every step outside my door does nothing more than remind me that Australian society is facile, morally and intellectually bankrupt and completely enslaved in one fashion or another. I at least had the decency for a real addiction...unlike so many "normal" people who choose to be addicted to mindless consumerism, reality TV, fast food and the Entertainment News Channel.
The next plastic, fake, glib lip-service-like phrase offered to me as a panacea for my emotional & mental shortcomings will result in me offering to tattoo the quote on that moron's forehead with a garden trowel.