/lit/ - Literature

>>19261524
I am sick of seeing this bullshit non stop all across the internet. You know what this idea amounts to?
Lets look at an example. Someone is in a really dark place and has legitimate reasons to be completely miserable, pessimistic, defeatist. Let's say his whole family; wife kids, dog, cat died in a car accident and the dude is about 60 so he cant restart another family. He has absolutely nothing.
Are you going to tell this man that his sadness caused by losing everything he cared about is a choice? That he feels completely annihilated because he is a coward?
This browbeating philosophy that being sad at events in life to the point where it completely derails your life is some sort of cowardice is completely unacceptable and it shows that you have never had a bad day in your easy comfy life.
It usually comes from self help arseholes who think working out will make you feel happy after losing your entire family in a tragic accident. This shit OBVIOUSLY comes from people who have neve ever had to deal with anything remotely fucked up in their life.
I myself have never lost a close family member other than grandparents and yeah I got over it with time. But I didnt get over it by calling my sadness towards the event cowardice. You are engaging in self psycholigical mutilation and rape when you browbeat yourself and call normal emotions cowardice. Its completely psychotic and disgusting.
Get a fucking grip.