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Are young people these days mentally so weak and fragile, and everyone has to be politically correct all the time so that we don’t break their fragile hearts? I
by anoy8888 3y ago
Are young people these days mentally so weak and fragile, and everyone has to be politically correct all the time so that we don’t break their fragile hearts? If you intent to finish and released the product and you fail to do so, is there a need to sugar coat it so that you feel better . You shouldn’t feel better by lying to yourself. This is how you learn and improve as a person . Accept pain .
- gAI 3y agoI think you misunderstand. Unconditional self-love isn't about pain avoidance. It's about accepting the pain as a function of ego and learning from it without turning it into self-flagellation or internalizing it as a function of identity.
- interroboink 3y ago> Accept pain. Now this is something I can get behind (: But for the rest, I think we are not on the same page w/regard to most of what I was trying to say. I guess you took my text to mean we should all tiptoe around everyone else's feelings all the time, to the point of absurdity — everyone gets a participation trophy, and nobody is allowed to acknowledge harsh reality, etc. I actually come from the other direction: failure is real, pain is common, so why add more to that pile for others? Why give people more reasons to feel bad about themselves through some choice of words? I suppose there's some aspect of "I waded through shit to get where I am, so you should too — it'll be good for you", and that seems ... off, to me. We are all wading through shit all the time already. Different kinds for different people. So maybe throw a rope from time to time, if you've got one. --- Aside: I don't think this is about young people these days, or political-correctness. This is about having empathy and broader perspective.