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Positivity is having a moment right now. When life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. Everything happens for a reason. It’s always darkest before the dawn, and if it’s especially dark right now, you haven’t been buried, you’ve been planted. All you need to do is bloom!
As with almost everything wrong with the world, social media is to blame. Social media has made it easier than ever to enjoy unprecedented, unfiltered access to people who richer, more beautiful and and more successful than the rest of us mere mortals, and thousands more people who make their living by telling us all how we can be just like them if we just think positively enough.
Conspicuously absent from these testimonies, are the people who credit their success to the doors opened by well-connected parents, preternaturally good looks, or a rare, God given talent that occurs only once or twice in a generation, and so their success is held up as all the evidence we need that if we just think positively enough we can achieve the same results.
But as we hopefully already know, life isn’t quite so simple. If you’ll forgive the gender stereotyping, “not every little girl gets to do what they want. The world could not support that many ballerinas”.
A brain of two halves.
