#absolute statements

[milder-manners]

Absolute statements about humanity (like, everyone does ‘blank’) is a really double-edged sword. It can be comforting to hear on some level to know that you’re not alone, that your experience is something that /everyone else/ has experienced. But if you choose the wrong statement, it can be alienating for others whom the statement doesn’t apply (like: ‘Everyone falls in love!’ Not me, my aro ass is not going anywhere near romance), and that is typically not comforting. Everyone will die eventually, is a true absolute statement, but it’s hardly comforting either. Unless, you think there’s an afterlife, then it might bring security. I don’t know, I don’t know what everyone thinks.

[sureiamgod]

Every absolute statement is entirely bullshit.

--Fucking God

[un--commonsense]

Absolute Statements

There's a trend in both internet memes and beyond, that of absolute statements.

Things like: Keep Calm and Carry On

While this may be relevant to most people for the majority of the time, these absolute statements should never be followed as if they are absoluterules. For instance, with the above mentioned example, keeping calm may not be always applicable. Sometimes emotions need to be released so the healing can begin. And carrying on is actually very damaging if taken too literally--this can lead to people staying in damaging situations, or foregoing their own health and well being for the sake of not stopping, both of which lead to even more stress that one must deal with and "keep calm" through.

In other words, even though these statements are nice and clean looking, their absoluteness should not be applied absolutely.

[theanniston-blog]

Why does everyone

always assume I want to be a vocational pastor?