2022 is rapidly approaching, allow us to suggest this anti-mantra
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Getty Images Sometime in the last few weeks, after another year of even more pervasive awfulness, a new mantra floated into my consciousness — not gently, like a serene butterfly alighting on my psyche, but like a sharp, loving slap in the face: “People have real problems.”
You might be thinking, Hey, that’s mean, my problems are real, and let me say unequivocally: Yes, you are right about that. Of course your problems are “real,” in that some of them are probably very serious, harmful, and have caused or are causing suffering, and that matters. Many of my problems are real too, in that sense. I know the issues I mentioned above were deliberately small and silly, falling in the annoying/embarrassing category. Not all problems are like this, obviously.
In its bluntness, it is a kind of anti-mantra against the Big Anxiety Industrial Complex that seems to have a special interest in flattening all of our sources of unrest, both ambient and aggressive, into the same category of “mental health.” I can’t stand “mental health.” Instead of normalizing all my bad feelings, trite messaging from celebrities, brands, apps, and advertisements that “it’s okay not to be okay” makes me feel overwhelmed, like I’m swimming in an ocean of problems.
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