only dumb people generalize

Only dumb people generalize. There’s so much to it. One of my biggest pet peeves is making a statement about a whole race, group, or society, with absolutely no effort made to dig a bit deeper into the topic, desperate on the quest of finding the remaining functional neurons inside your brain. A brain so small that it is completely overwhelmed by the fact that people don’t live as hive-minds, they have feelings, too. Too ignorant to accept that when they are hurt, they feel pain just as we do.  We feel all kinds of emotions, but we still opt to not show them; subdued all of Earth’s races (except orcas) to realize that even among ourselves we hide what we really feel. And then again, you would be silly to think there isn’t a single scenario where you could put THAT label on. You might not know what edge case it is, neither would you dare denying its existence.

Alright, now to get to my point. I noticed that the two most recent posts (my Monday Scaries basically) were kind of depressing. Okay, mich juckts nicht mehr in Englisch schreiben. Auf alle Fälle, nein, doch weiter auf Englisch. Sorry, just spaced out for a few seconds. This should have been a post about phone addiction, where I explain to you in very much detail how I feel Social Media (SM) is wasting everyone’s life away. Then, I realized that talking about phone addiction will have me end up in the group of dumb people that generalize. Hence, I decided to start it this way and only narrate my very own personal anecdote, when a moment of reflection struck me: SM knows exactly who I am, what I type, like, hate, engage, avoid, ignore, and now I should go ahead and confirm it in written form?

My other pet peeve that drives me mad is when people don’t try enough with language. Not everything is good or bad. Don’t use “angry”, go with “furious”. You almost „died laughing“, are you sure? I firmly believe the only aspects of life I am dissatisfied with solely exist because I haven’t walked along the thought far enough to see its origin. Not everything has to be said right away, why not savor your feelings a bit longer and let the moment speak for itself? Take a step back, wait, and think: You have spent all this time believing, feeling, reacting, talking the same way ever since you remember - why not try something new? Use your senses!