Sometimes I Think People Just Try Too Hard to Validate Themselves a Lot
When people share quotes about things they really want, I think it’s because they just want to validate themselves to do that. “It’s okay to do this, it’s okay to do that”. When most people say the same thing, they feel like they’ve won. But if it’s not, they confront it and maybe start looking for validation in other ways. In fact, I was just surfing on Google a moment ago to validate that my thoughts on this were totally true. What? Yup. I realized I was doing the exact thing I’m writing about. LOL. And I found that there’s a similar phenomena called ‘aestheticizing mental health’ or ‘therapy speak’ — but it’s not totally the same as what I want to say here. Source: Pinterest Nowadays, if we’re scrolling through our feed, we see a massive wave of quotes that contain many topics — from the important stuff to the most trivial things. Every time we scroll and find something that aligns perfectly with our current mood or frustration, we feel this instant wave of validation and say loudly...
