Stop This PMA, Resolutions and Self-Care Nonsense!
Let’s face it, this whole Positive Mental Attitude thing is irritating AF. The resolutions, the motivational quotes, the reminders to #BeKindToYourself and #BeBlessed are grating every January but this one, in particular, they’re even more so. We’ve only been in 2021 a handful of days and they’re out in force raising our collective blood pressure.
Forget Facebook and Twitter, we can’t even escape them here on LinkedIn which is supposed to be a serious professional medium for crying out loud! We may have even posted -or at least liked- some ourselves while keeping the eye rolls and ridicule to that one WhatsApp group where our favourite people reside -the dark souls with the green emoji’s at the ready!-
Thin of patience and with more fodder for cynicism than ever before, we feel more like we’re part of the scenes in an apocalypse movie where the remaining survivors are emerging from the ruins, dragging limbs and clutching broken family heirlooms, we’re in no mood for it all.
Sure, somewhere in the back of our minds we know all the posters and the well-intentioned cheery “do X so you are Y% happier” suggestions aren’t completely baseless and there’s scientific reasoning for doing these things, not to mention we can still sort of remember those time when we did some of them for that one week of self-care and sure, life felt better, but was that a price worth paying?
Even if we were to abide by all this cringe rhetorics, are not awfully self-serving (and frankly too damn tired) to spend time on that? Sure, we can think of trying some Joe Wicks at lunchtime, but setting aside 30 minutes *every* day to breathe intentionally, meditate, and non-ironically visualise some good outcome?
