Platitudes Just don't work for me
I wonder sometimes about platitudes. Do people actually think they are true? I've lived a while and platitudes just don't seem to work in my life experience. I think maybe they are pleasant sounding things people make up to make themselves feel more hopeful and hurt less. I think maybe it's best just to face life head on.
Do I mean give up hope? No, but I do mean live in reality not depending on false expectations of change to the point that you can't face reality in realistic ways. Just because it's been dark for a long time doesn't necessarily mean the sunlight is right around the corner, it may stay dark an even longer time but people tell themselves they are about to step into the light just to make the darkness more bearable.
Sometimes things just are what they are and they change when they change, change is not usually accomplished on our schedule.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, now that is an interesting perspective, sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you devastated and barely alive and that's just the truth of it. Sugar coating may work for some people, it just never has for me. Facing what is for what it is seems to be more workable than trying to endure it by minimizing the truth with platitudes and being disappointed when they don't work. Each situation is different. There is no one platitude fits all.
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