Anonymous wrote:Sports. The Eagles. The Steelers. Whatever.
Anonymous wrote:People in therapy
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Travel people. I’m a millennial and I don’t know how common this is with other age groups but the wanderlust/I have to be planning a trip or on one people are so annoying. Nothing against vacationing or traveling to interesting places but that, in itself, is not a personality.
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You are supposed to travel for yourself, not for bragging rights, but travel has somehow turned into a bragging rights thing, which is shameful.
This is the problem with our whole society now. Everything has turned into a competition. Travel, parenting, working, remodeling. The “Look at me! I do X better than you!” phenomenon. And the fact that all these things appear contagious. If neighbor A and B remodel their kitchen, you just know which neighbors C and D will soon follow, even if they hadn’t previously discussed it.
I don't know if the whole society is like this, but certainly the DMV. It sucks the joy out of a lot of stuff.
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Self proclaimed "foodies" (or whatever they call them now) too.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Travel people. I’m a millennial and I don’t know how common this is with other age groups but the wanderlust/I have to be planning a trip or on one people are so annoying. Nothing against vacationing or traveling to interesting places but that, in itself, is not a personality.
+1
You are supposed to travel for yourself, not for bragging rights, but travel has somehow turned into a bragging rights thing, which is shameful.
This is the problem with our whole society now. Everything has turned into a competition. Travel, parenting, working, remodeling. The “Look at me! I do X better than you!” phenomenon. And the fact that all these things appear contagious. If neighbor A and B remodel their kitchen, you just know which neighbors C and D will soon follow, even if they hadn’t previously discussed it.
I don't know if the whole society is like this, but certainly the DMV. It sucks the joy out of a lot of stuff.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The kind of cancer survivors who use it as a trump card or demand that everybody praise their courage. Persevering through medical treatment is an amazing thing, I am sincerely happy for them and wish all the best. But people survive all kinds of life threatening conditions without making it their identity.
It's narcissism. I have a family member whose cancer resolved 20 years ago, and it's still all about her cancer.
There are a lot of people who make an old trauma their whole personality. I know a woman who had a premie her a decade ago, and went on to have two more kids, and it's still her "thing." As her kid gets older I feel like it gets more and more awkward -- this child is healthy and fine and has no memory of any of this, but her mom brings it up all the time.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Travel people. I’m a millennial and I don’t know how common this is with other age groups but the wanderlust/I have to be planning a trip or on one people are so annoying. Nothing against vacationing or traveling to interesting places but that, in itself, is not a personality.
+1
You are supposed to travel for yourself, not for bragging rights, but travel has somehow turned into a bragging rights thing, which is shameful.
This is the problem with our whole society now. Everything has turned into a competition. Travel, parenting, working, remodeling. The “Look at me! I do X better than you!” phenomenon. And the fact that all these things appear contagious. If neighbor A and B remodel their kitchen, you just know which neighbors C and D will soon follow, even if they hadn’t previously discussed it.
Anonymous wrote:Live in the city people. The ones who are most invested in identifying that way often moved here from elsewhere.
DC native and I love it, but I often feel like the place I grew up with is completely different from the one I read about on DCUM.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Being chronically ill with something bizarre (Ehler Danlos anyone) yet simultaneously constantly traveling/hiking
I know dove one who claims to have ED it’s so odd. She posts about its ll the time an age with the friend with “ fibromyalgia”.
Anonymous wrote:Being chronically ill with something bizarre (Ehler Danlos anyone) yet simultaneously constantly traveling/hiking