It’s Okay To Not Be Okay: How The “Positive Vibes Only” Movement Can Be Harmful
The words that come after the phrase “It’s just funny how…” are hardly ever funny. It’s complicated how that phrase has always been used as a way to neutralize negative emotions. Those words could genuinely mean that something’s humorous or light-hearted but the words and the tone they carry, usually don’t. “It’s just funny how you never truly know who’s there for you.” “It’s just funny how amazing opportunities can burn out in an instant.” It’s just funny how people have a hard time being direct. This phrase is simply a technique meant to deflect the true feelings a person has. No one wants to be disrupted by gnarled, toxic feelings. But it’s very strange how this feeling, in particular, is not special or granted to a select few; we all deal with this, yet it’s not talked about and deemed taboo. The perception of everything being peachy keen and light-filled is a very impractical one. It’s dishonest for someone to front like they have it all together, and maintaining ...