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theamazingzuchinni t1_ivsb1ab wrote

Actually constant positivity can be way more toxic. Sometimes you have to be negative, and by "negative" I mean a realist and honest with the situation.

I've been handed a cactus, I know I can't hug it or touch it, it doesn't need water and much care, and it doesn't give me anything, in fact it's pretty useless, and it's not even pretty. But you know what? I can put it on my freaking table, or my window ledge to be reminded that not everything is a pretty orchid, sometimes something is an ugly, prickly cactus, that can actually give me a pretty flower sometimes, more times not, and that's ok.

Because people don't need constant sickening positivity to get motivated, they need reality that reminds them why they're doing what they're doing and when it's ok to stop.

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felixamente t1_ivslbyw wrote

I think cactuses (cacti?) are pretty. But otherwise yah I agree platitudes and cliches are not helpful and dilute the real motivation.

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theamazingzuchinni t1_ivsls89 wrote

Both correct I think, in English and Latin respectively. And yeah they're motherfreaking pretty. And lemons are delicious on their own, too. (You know, make lemonade and shit, actually you already got the cactus bit, I'm guessing you got that, too)

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