Life sucks. Life isn’t fair.
But that is what’s so great about it. Those people you speak of are the one’s who can’t accept that. If they did, they would be capable of embracing everything that comes their way. The good. The bad. The ugly. Hence, being mature enough to take responsibility for their own actions or at least being optimistic when it comes to fucking up. Those people you speak of are also incapable of learning from their mistakes because to them, they can do no wrong, but everyone else can. They’re stunting their own growth.
Of course, there are always things that happen that are out of our control that make life hard. Death of a family member, death of a friend, illness etc.
And it’s okay to feel like life isn’t fair. It’s fair to feel like life isn’t fair because it isn’t.
What I feel the media does is make people feel like it’s normal or okay for us to ignore our problems.
It also shows examples of ‘perfection’. That happy family on television, those beautiful models in magazines, the rich and famous. It brainwashes people, mainly our youth, into thinking that having an amazing body and tons of money is what you should strive for. This ultimately makes people less happy in my opinion because the only thing they can fall back on is the fact that life isn’t fair. Well fucking DUH.
My question is why would anybody want life to be fair? How fucking boring. No challenges. No risks. No struggles or hardships. The shit that comes our way is what builds character in us the most. It gives us backbone. The ones who have that negative, pessimistic attitude and blame everyone else for what they’re doing wrong will never grow and learn to appreciate life.
I don’t know if the media and society actually reward this, but they sure as hell don’t give us any reason to be happy with what we’ve got by telling us that we aren’t ‘hip’ and ‘in’ if we don’t have this and that which in turn makes people look at their life and feel incompetent. But those people depend too heavily on the media anyway. It’s their own damn fault. hard to blame the media.