Of all the crutches people use to excuse bad behaviour, being “triggered” has to be the worst.
This new phrase has arisen during the age of attention economy.But the only thing that triggers me is the idea of being triggered.
🤬You see a social post and you are triggered.
👺 Someone says something you don’t agree with and you’re triggered.
💢 someone has an opinion on something and you’re triggered
The premise of being triggered is that you have an emotional reaction, and that whatever happens next isn’t your responsibility.
Now you can spend the next 15 mins riding a wave of righteous indignation!
Even better, now you can spread your own, far more valid, point of view to others via social media,
triggering them in turn,
igniting a shockwave chain reaction of triggers across the internet.
We call this a “viral post”.
Many social content creators actively try to artificially manufacture this trigger reaction, to get attention.
But I refuse to accept this idea that your reaction is out with your own own control;
That your own behaviour is someone else’s responsibility.
I get it, anger feels good sometimes. it’s addictive.
but are we children, to throw out toys when angry or cry the moment we feel hunger?
No we are adults, with rational brains.
it’s our job to resist our base impulses,
lest we all revert back to tribes of apes hitting each other with sticks and flinging feces at each other 💩
To pretend otherwise is devolving yourself of ownership and blame.
so don’t take the easy route.
it’s time we all grew up and nurtured a more tolerant attitude to people with different opinions.
from a selfish point of view, do you want to spend your whole life and emotional seesaw,
being controlled by the behaviours of others?
You will never be able to control what other people do,
Only your own reaction to it.
If this post triggered you,
feel free to go whinge about it on social media, I’ll be out in garden not giving a F.
