"Toxic Positivity" Is Another Phrase That Gets Bandied About So Much That The Whole Of Us Forget What

"Toxic Positivity" is another phrase that gets bandied about so much that the whole of us forget what shapes our tongues need to make to form the right sounds.

Toxic positivity isn't smiling through tears or stiffing that upper lip, it's not hearing "the sun will come out tomorrow" on the old warped record player in your head or making jokes after a tragedy. At worst, those things are naivety and at best they're Hope.

If you want to see Toxic Positivity, capitalized and omnipresent, just to see what it looks like, go to any job recruiters' page on LinkedIn. It's a landscape made of rictus smiles and worn down manifestations; each profile is a shiny altar to a god that won't acknowledge it's been abandoned.

Thank you soo much❤️

Today, I went all except one of my classes. Talked and helped a guy out. Asked a professor about a few of my concerns. Volunteered to die for a thought experiment in another class. Spoke up in class in another class. Asked a whole bunch of strangers on campus for 'How to cope with this weather?' advice. Hung out with an old friend. Hung out with a pretty regular friend. Went out for dinner with my bf.

On the one hand, I'm so happy that I made it so far. On the other, I want to rip someone's head off.