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So many acquaintances and some personal friends on Face Book are posting sentiments that are supposed to be inspirational and meaningful, intending to be so profound as to be life changing. I already feel sinycal about this but moving on I get really irritated by these feeble attempts to show deep wisdom in one or two sentences. I think what bothers me is they seem so selfish. Here’s a recent one, Those who remain in their comfort zone should realize nothing grows there. And another, For those who are are not happy with what they have, what makes them think they will be happy with more. I was getting ten or fifteen of these a day before I stopped following many people. They are really popular with missionaries, some GAs and a bishop I know. I guess I’m just venting. Why does this get under my skin so easily? For me it is because as I have found things to generally be messy (very messy) they seem to over-simplify and I can see sometimes where the person does NOT live anywhere near the ideal they are spouting (but often they are blind to it). I used to live in a ward where a sister constantly harped on “women working outside the home.” The issue was that she was a school librarian, so she worked out of the home. But she seemed to think this didn’t count since she was interacting with teachers. Made many of the sisters angry – even those that didn’t work. I have made some progress of giving people some slack, but I too have some times where it gets to me.
I see those all the time. Don’t forget: The church, doing more with 10% than the government does with 40%.
:think: I think this is one of those cases where a quote can
reallyspeak to someone and be completely meaningless to someone else, and that’s okay. I’ll take one from the top of my feed right now as an example:
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.” – Joseph Campbell
That doesn’t do much for me but I can see how it can be inspirational to others.
I went to my FB feed to see what my friends were sharing in the way of inspirational messages. “The most expensive part of raising kids is all the wine you have to drink.”Hmm … I don’t think I have enough LDS friends ..
I have no problem with people sharing things that are inspirational and meaningful to them. I want their acceptance of me when I do it.
It is the mean-spirited things that bother me.
I think they’re a fad that will peter out or morph into something else. Right now everyone is excited about the ability to produce something “at home” that looks artistic and professional. At least that’s how I think I’d feel about it if I could do any of it myself. 😳 I find some of those buggy. But I think to myself that it reveals something about the other person, what is meaningful to them…and something about myself why it is less meaningful to me. Reminds me when a friend raves about a new movie and I totally don’t like it. When it is a family member or good friend, I usually just move on and not say anything. Just let them enjoy it. But I don’t get excited hanging out with them when they want to watch a movie…I would rather not.
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