God I Hate Myself
Self-deprecation is the being modest about or critical of oneself, especially humorously so. Self-depreciation is what's in recently it's actually kind of funny. Everyone around me has gone from being conceded to 'hating' themselves. Everyone is always saying 'I'm actually going to kill myself' or 'I'm dying'. Everyone' also always calling themselves failures even though they are clearly not. People have gone from bullying others to be 'cool' and 'hip' to bullying themselves for the amusement of others.
Suicide unfortunately also become something cool and hip to joke about. It's like its become socially acceptable to talk about killing yourself, like no one even blinks an eye when someone mentions that. It's kind of sad that we find that cool but I guess it also represents the society that we live in. Suicide has become such a prevalent thing in society that we as teenagers to take the sadness and depression out of it and turn it into a joke. Just like hating yourself used to be something people didn't outwardly express but now they do. The people who were bullied took the bully's job and did it themselves and people found it funny so more and more people started doing it.
There is so many things promoting self-deprecation like the millions of memes for self-hatred. There's even tests to show you how much you hate yourself and how high or low your self-esteem is. Here is just one of the few self-hatred tests that are circulating around the Internet. https://www.psychologytoday.com/tests/personality/self-esteem-test. There's jokes and memes on every form of social media from twitter and instagram to facebook and reddit. It has spread rapidly and it seems to be getting everywhere except for mainstream music. Films have started to use it as a way of making the movie comedic and a way to have the characters relate to the audience. But in movies the people who are hating on themselves are usually teenagers or young adults. Its amazing to see what's cool in today's everyday teenagers.
This unfortunate reality is sickening in my eyes. One line that really stood out to me is when you said, "It's like its become socially acceptable to talk about killing yourself, like no one even blinks an eye when someone mentions that." Its true. Teenagers use the term "Kill yourself" or "I'm going to kill myself" so nonchalantly and even students in middle school are starting to use it. People think suicide is just some sort of normal thing. I, myself, have probably even said itd be easier to just not deal with anything anymore instead of going through all the stress and life complications. And I said this not understanding what I was REALLY saying. By saying I didn't want to deal with anything anymore just so I wouldn't have to deal with the hard things in life is like saying id never eat anything because the rare times I don't like it are so much more painful than all the other amazing meals I've had. I wish I never said what I did because the hard times I was going through, seeming unbearable at the time, did eventually subside. And if I gave up when that happened, I wouldn't have experienced the amazing things that happened later on. Since then I have been much more aware of what I'm saying when it comes to that sensitive topic.
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