• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
    50·
    7 months ago

    Very interesting sentiments, very agreeable, but if this were one of my patients I would be quick to redirect the conversation away from “society is wrong” into “You’re realizing that you believe this is your path”. Generalizations like that do us no good. If it’s about YOU, then make it about YOU. If someone is dismissing YOU based on this stuff, talk about how that person’s words affect YOU.

    I bet $100 that this person recently had a conversation with someone where this kind of language was used. Or, maybe more likely, they saw some random irrelevant bullshit on the internet from a stranger and extrapolated messages about an entire culture from it. The culture is YOU TOO, buddy!

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
      11·
      7 months ago

      A fair point. However, reading the OP back, it seems to me that they aren’t dismissing “forever” as success. They are only stating that its not the only acceptable definition of it.

      The way i see it, some things that require never-ending commitment to be deemed a success and others don’t, but that’s not how society sees it in general.

      I think messages like the one in the post are a good thing to read and think about how they apply to your own life.