Posted on 05/14/2024 8:32:38 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Whether you’re in a yoga studio or the doctor’s office waiting room or scrolling through social media posts, positive affirmations encouraging you to live your best life can be found almost everywhere.
But what if you don’t feel like it? For mental health advocate and author Dave Tarnowski, society’s penchant to push what he calls “toxic positivity” felt like brainwashing. Tarnowski turned that positivity on its head when he launched his Disappointing Affirmations Instagram account in July 2022. It went viral and now has more than 2 million followers.
Tarnowski’s new book, “Disappointing Affirmations: Unfollow your dreams!” expands on his social media musings, pairing photos he’s taken of serene landscapes — waterfalls, dramatic coastlines, sunsets and the like — with some of his viral Instagram posts and new sayings.
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That’s why the have CNN on the TVs in so many public places
Funny stuff!
Wouldn’t sign up for Instagram for $1,000, but they seemed to let me browse a few pages before cutting me off.
The Perfection game experiments made me a believer.
Players that had folks cheering them on fared better than players that had folks jeering them.
I’m relentlessly optimistic.
haha!!!
of course, if the patient had no sense of humor, he’d be driven to suicide..
I’m not 100 percent sure I understand the premise.
But one thing that drives me nuts is waiting on the phone for a long period of time while the endlessly repeating mobo-message keeps telling me how important my call is the them.
If my call is so f’ing important why not hire enough employees to actually ANSWER it!?!?
Then she’ll just bring the dog to work.
>> I’m relentlessly optimistic.
I believe in Jesus Christ, and the Power of GOD through His Holy Spirit.
I am solidly optimistic.
That doesn’t mean I’m not open-eyed cognizant of the times we’re in.
“This is why it is said:
“Wake up, sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”
Maybe this is a bit like Catcher in the Rye? Showing that there needs to be room to be down, sometimes. It’s a big lie to expect every moment to be positive. Even Jesus wept. As the song goes:
Jesus walked this lonesome valley.
He had to walk it by himself.
Oh, nobody else could walk it for him;
He had to walk it by himself.
Rd later.
I love those disenchanting posters. Reality eventually takes hold and it’s better than any play.
A few years ago, my son’s employer went bankrupt just before Christmas. They had a bunch of those stupid motivational posters on the office walls. He liberated them and we all got motivational posters as a Christmas gag gift.
We all got him de-motivational posters from Despair the next Christmas.
I’m not negative, pessimistic, depressed or despairing...I just have the appropriate reaction to the world as it is.
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