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I guess. After all, your imaginary friends never argue or dissent. They never bully you. And they always agree with your opinion. You’ll be really nice. On t
by eric4smith 4y ago
I guess.
After all, your imaginary friends never argue or dissent. They never bully you. And they always agree with your opinion.
You’ll be really nice.
On the other hand you’ll fold the moment real life nudges you.
Just a lifting weights help to grow muscles, a little trauma makes a strong rounded person.
- loa_in_ 4y agoI don't know where does one get the idea that imaginary friends or similar (headmasters, etc.) are always in agreement with the one who imagines them.
- arbitrage 4y ago> a little trauma makes a strong rounded person. It's sick and extremely maladaptive to say outright that everyone should be traumatized for their own good.
- fortran77 4y agoDid he say that? I didn't get that. And, reflecting back on my 59 years...it was the tough times that caused me to grow. YMMV.
- larve 4y agoTrauma is the result of tough times that actively stunted or even undid your growth.
- lambda_dn 4y agoI think OP meant life will lead to adversities that destroy some people, others overcome it which builds a robust character.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoOr it's simply survivorship bias. Airplanes with red dots didnt grow up to be strong.
- samatman 4y agoThe problem with this is that "little trauma" is an oxymoron, trauma is severe by definition. The word is another victim of the hyperbolic tendency in, specifically, the Californian dialect of American English. You will see people talking about various small insults as 'trauma', and brand-new constructions like "trauma dumping" which is, often as not, telling a friend about a bad week when she wasn't in the mood to hear it. Don't fall for it. Trauma fucks you up, that's how you know it's trauma.
- dandanua 4y ago"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger!" — F. Nietzsche "Or disabled" — reality