Here's the thing: I am constantly on social media. I love using Twitter, and it's usually the first thing I check when I wake up. Most of the time, I get on there to watch comedic videos or read tweets that make me laugh. I also read some of the posts copied from Tumblr, because they catch my eye. I can usually scroll through my feed without a grievance, but there are some days when I just have to stop myself and wonder, what in the world is going through the minds of the people on this site?
I've seen so many posts in the past few years about how people "hate the world" or how they "don't have feelings." My least favorite thing to say is someone saying that they "do not care at all any more." I'm just stunned when I see these things. It is impossible to not care about anything at all–I have tried plenty of times.
When did being cold and detached become cool? When did having pride about having "dark souls" become a trend? Why do people think it's okay to "hate everyone and everything?" People romanticize the idea of being able to hate the entire human population, and that baffles me. Hate is so heavy. I don't understand why one would want to hold on to it. I could maybe understand it if these people had some type of proper reasoning for their behavior, and some of them do, I'm sure.
The thing is, I can also tell that some of these users are just posting these things because they feed off the negative thoughts that run through a person's mind when they are at their lowest. All the retweets, re-blogs, and favorites make them realize that they could help fuel a generation with hatred, a generation that already faces enough scrutiny on a daily basis for being odd. That is evil. These kids are not lost, they're seventeen-year-old Tumblr fanatics.
This saddens me because a majority of the people who post these things have a life that some would kill for. People who really have every single reason to say they have a "dark soul" are too busy bettering themselves or wishing they had the life this teenager is complaining about. There are people out there wishing they had someone or something to care about or even care about them, yet this teenager on Twitter is claiming to be in a worse situation. I feel like they were hurt a few too many times in their short life span, and they they may now think that is how life is always going to be. They want it to be easy for them, but in reality, life will never be easy all the time. I just cannot comprehend why anyone would praise being so disenchanted with life.
In conclusion, this behavior is not "cool." I know that some cannot help how they are, but it's one thing to be 'dark' and another to constantly brag about it. Having a dark soul is not cute or funny; that is not how you want to live. If more people in this society would smile or even just say "hi" as they walk by someone, things would be more positive.
Bad things happen to everyone, but you need to be strong enough to recover and become better. You have not met everyone, so stop saying you hate people. You have not done everything in the world, so stop saying you hate everything. Take a look around, stop being so ungrateful, stop blaming the world, and at least attempt to live a brighter life.
These negative thoughts have become respectable, and that is one of the biggest flaws in our society right now. Get off the computer, go outside, enjoy nature, get lost in a book, and spend time with people that make you laugh.
Life is too short to make being sad a fad.
