Vagueness
It’s been a crazy year. Still crazy.
Why are life quotes so popular these days? Everybody’s trying to send “wise” and “what’s-the-right-thing-to-do” messages.
Just the other day I received more than five messages with similar thoughts. They were all saying “choose to be happy, live with an open mind, be couragaeous.. yada yada yada.”
They were all vague and “Desiderata-ish”. Like people actually have time to meditate on vagueness.
I’m not saying the people who send these messages are stupid or something. I’m actually one of those who do. And I’m stupid only on two things: Jesus and love (debatably just one).
I just get a bit tired of all the noble vagueness sometimes. Wouldn’t it be more creative and more interesting if they were actually specific?
Like when we were kids we loved stories. Well, we still do. And stories had plots, characters; specific, detailed.
Couldn’t those messages actually tell stories of real men who were truly courageous? Give examples of people who stepped out, became truly different, and were truly happy? That would be incredibly more entertaining. Unfortunately, most of us are just a little too uneducated about such people.
Or maybe we could share little moments of our own lives when we decided to be brave and discovered that there was more to us than vagueness.
As this is all vagueness.
