Soldato
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If you can't convince them, confuse them!
Life changing philosophical thoughts
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That's why I like the ones I use. They're all about introverted self-improvement.
Failures aren't failures any more if they're developing themselves.
My sister has a friend who, circa 3 years ago, divorced her husband (his decision). Since then she posts incessant memes/quotes/"motivational" quips on her Instagram, spouting how much better off she is now without him.
One or two here and there is fine but you can set your watch by them, she posts at least a few a week sometimes.
All it screams to me is that she is very much not over him and he still occupies her mind all the time. They'll say things such as;
"Treat every woman the way you'd want your daughter to be treated".
"My goal for 2016 is to never allow myself to fall that low again".
"I won't hate you, but I won't let you get close enough again to hurt me".
To be clear I'm not trying to knock the woman, if she isn't over him then that's very sad and I genuinely feel sorry for her. But keep posting nonsense like this just feels very contradictory.
To bring me back round to the point I was making, I agree with pepsilol, that they tend to show the exact opposite of the meaning that they were intended.
One or two here and there is fine but you can set your watch by them, she posts at least a few a week sometimes.
All it screams to me is that she is very much not over him and he still occupies her mind all the time. They'll say things such as;
"Treat every woman the way you'd want your daughter to be treated".
"My goal for 2016 is to never allow myself to fall that low again".
"I won't hate you, but I won't let you get close enough again to hurt me".
To be clear I'm not trying to knock the woman, if she isn't over him then that's very sad and I genuinely feel sorry for her. But keep posting nonsense like this just feels very contradictory.
To bring me back round to the point I was making, I agree with pepsilol, that they tend to show the exact opposite of the meaning that they were intended.
I've got one like that on my facebook feed - former colleague, not sure if she was previously married or not but either way she's an older woman, single and childless and also seems to mostly post things along those lines... usually some text over some picture - comparing women to 'fine wine' getting better with age etc.. or some quote about how she's not mental... or 'a good man can make you confident etc... oh, sorry wine does that'
I guess it depends on whether you actually try to live by them and generally keep them to yourself, or if you post them on Facebook every 5 minutes to show all your fake friends how edgy and motivated your fake life is
Its from the stance of "expect other drivers to do idiotic things at every possible chance" rather than thinking your right all the time. Be prepared I guess.