Rant: Distanced, Disingenuous Dumbasses

When someone says/writes something along the lines of, "I'm having a horrible day, everything is falling apart in front of me", and people reply with, "keep your head up, just keep smiling", I have to admit, that is some lazy ass comforting on the part of the people replying. Seriously, what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish? Person says they're having a horrid day, and people tell them some general advice that, in all honesty, is more telling them how they should be behaving rather than comforting.

JUST KEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND KEEP SMILING!! :) :) :)

Fuck off. Seriously, I know plenty of people will disagree with me, and I'm allowing my emotional side to dictate a bit more than usual, but YOU ARE SAYING NOTHING HELPFUL. Granted, one could argue that just them typing that might impact the depressed person to feel better, because they are being thought about, but I disagree; when a person writes or says something lazy like that, it is very dismissive, it has more to do with them half-assedly trying to remain a "good" person while investing as little brain power into the matter as possible. Either commit to the damn problem or keep your trap shut.

Committing to helping someone goes along these "extra mile" requirements:

- Asking what the issue is, telling the person (emphatically and seriously) that if they need someone to speak to they should reach out to you.

- Putting some brain power into either problem solving, comforting, or a combination of the two.
- Checking in on the person after the "initial contact" has been made.

I genuinely believe that people who say things like "I'll pray for you!!!!", or "Everything happens for a reason, everything will work out", are either A) Dumb as brick, or B) Lazy, C) Want to seem like good people with as little involvement as possible, or D) a combination of the previous three options.

As weird as this might be, and why this would set me off, I do not fully know, but it's something I notice every day from a vast majority of people, and is it my problem? Probably, but fuck it, and fuck you half ass ingenuines.

Rant over.

Listening to: Ice Age (Deadmau5 Remix)