Self-appointed life coach.

Dec 26 2009 no comments Life Personal

I haven’t blogged about myself in a while, so this should be interesting– or at least I’m hoping it will be.

So, I’m not used to having people add me on Twitter, so lately, when I’ve been using it more– they’ll add me, I’ll add them back, and everything is peachy, right? Only I’ve noticed an unnatural number of them are like giving great speeches (as twitter allows, at least, in size) every few hours about how the world is our oyster and everything happens for a reason– and keep your chin up kitten, hang in there, everything will be okay if you’re positive.

I’m wondering if I somehow give off the vibe of someone who is in desperate need of positive reinforcement, of even beyond that, just in need of some serious help from some random stranger halfway across the world to help me ‘realise my dreams’. I understand that at 26 with no job and no forseeable future in that direction it would seem as if I’m in need of someone to help start pushing me towards some kind of dream or hopeful end, but I don’t remember ever asking for any such thing.

So this leads me to ask: am I so pathetic that they can sense me from a mile away? Are they adding everyone just to see how many people will listen to their hawking of the self-actualising drivel that the self-appointed ‘life coach’ feels will make everyone’s lives better. Am I such a hopeless case that I have three or four of these people adding me a day to send weirdly capitalised messages about how I can realise my dreams, and how I’m just awesome for existing, because honestly, no one is awesome for just existing (except maybe my dad and best friend, too awesome), no one exceeds potential just by going “I’m a special snowflake, the world will see that and make me even more specialer.”

When did life become a mass of self-believing, pretentious people who think that just existing and acting like they’re special will somehow bring them good luck and many, many buckets of fortune. Did society forget the fact that everything is something you have to work for. Nothing is free, no one is free, and as sad as that is, it is the truth. Knowledge is power and deluding yourself into thinking that just because you believe it to be true, the world will bend in your favour is just something I cannot abide by.

I’m all for positive thinking to get yourself through the day, to make your life a little bit more bearable, but if all you do all day is sit on Twitter and hawk your useless words at people in hopes that they’ll respond about how much you’ve helped them, or how much you matter in the grand sense of things, then you’re just as hopeless at the rest of us– the not so self-actualised people in the world.

I still feel weird that they seem to be targeting me lately.

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