How To Save Yourself From The Malady of Our Society

And the greatest gift you can give to yourself

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There is a disease in our society.

At first I thought it might just be a millennial issue.

I now recognize it is prolific in western society- affecting all ages, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

It is the disease of self pity; the total absorbance into one’s own difficulties.

Self victimization.

It’s a malady openly flaunted and accepted, joked about in memes, a mainstay on social media.

Many of us have a story we tell about ourselves.

A story of victimization and negative self talk- “I’ll never succeed because I’m poor”; or “I’ll never feel better because this person doesn’t love me”.

We use the language of “Why me?”, “This would only happen to me”; as if we are special in our suffering.

This attitude proliferates into daily life.

There’s a traffic jam because “everything loves to go wrong for me”.