when we live in a world where a philosophical stance on life and destructive mantra can be summed up in three letters, which some people post via twitter or as a status update, daily
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i dunno if it's so much an antidote as a cricket bat to the face, with a follow mug of shut the fuck up.... right up there with white person privilege. i mean, the people who are living with 2nd, 3rd and 4th world problems could still, if they felt like it, choose to say, "mercenaries gunned down my mother, leaving me to have to enter into a life of child prostitution... fml."
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ok, changing that to "and i'm not even mad" feels fucking creepy and i would not suggest it.
but, yeah, whinging and saying "fwp" still frames it as a problem... legitimate or otherwise. it tells them to build a bridge and get over it, negative re-enforcement, not positive life affirmation.
i sound like a freakin' hippy, espousing this stuff...
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...what "fml" meant actually.
But hey, I'm totes down with the self-pity.
Nice post. I'll try to restrain my own whinging today. ;)
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...Sorry, that was me, Girl Clumsy. I've got to work out how to use this openID business.
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ok, changing that to "and i'm not even mad" feels fucking creepy and i would not suggest it.
but, yeah, whinging and saying "fwp" still frames it as a problem... legitimate or otherwise. it tells them to build a bridge and get over it, negative re-enforcement, not positive life affirmation.
i sound like a freakin' hippy, espousing this stuff...
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and i'm not even mad sounds like you've already let the universe flow over you and you've reached your happy space, already...
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