I’m trying to wrap my head around this norm that often seems to present itself in our conversations and the way that we interact with one another. Now in the grandest scheme of things this never truly hurts anybody but I have to wonder, does our internal struggle become less important just because everybody has got a personal demon that they need to battle it out with?
Again I repeat something that I’ve expressed in my earlier entry, I never bought into the idea of getting by, being comfortable or keeping up with the joneses. The reason for this is because mediocrity breeds mediocrity, and whilst I don’t have any direct issues with being average, nobody would welcome the thought of an average doctor performing an open heart surgery in their average hospital or practice. You’d simply aim for the best of the best.
The issue where I struggle the most is that we all teach each other how to be mediocre at looking after our damn mental health, and that’s where I have an issue with the phrase “Everybody hurts” or “We all have problems that we need to deal with” because: we all become so bad at looking after ourselves individually that we’re hopeless at helping one another stay above the line of terminal illness.
It then becomes funny to me almost, that we end up in situations where we have to find the permission to offload our problems on somebody just in case they might be too close to a situation where they might self harm. It then becomes funny to me almost because we start to feel like a burden to others despite how great or human rights are to live a healthy and mentally positive quality of life. Somehow we have to heal, the healthier we are the easier that could happen, and I guess that’s all that I’m trying to say.
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