• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Wholesome? All of them have a negative side. Can I not just be good? Does there have to be some bad thing?

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    7 days ago

    I am not a fan of this culture of identifying yourself by your problems.

    Making a problem your identity just errodes all the great things about the individual. Being an amputee isn’t a personality, and neither is being depressed or having anxiety. People are bigger than that, they have individual interests, skills, and virtues that are much healthier to identify by.

    I think of myself as a friend, a technologically inclined person, an athletic person, a smart person, a person who loves games and octopuses, etc.

    I might also have some of the traits or feelings in this infographic, but they aren’t me. They are problems that I, the cool techy athletic animal lover, am solving.

    Play your strengths, fix your weekenesses. Don’t make your biggest problem into your middle name.