Apparently, everything is 100% now.
Ask someone, “Did that seem weird to you?”
“100%.”
“Are you sure?”
“100%.”
“Did that meeting make you uncomfortable?”
“100%.”
“Do you think he was being passive-aggressive?”
“100%.”
Apparently, we have collectively abandoned the nuanced middle ground where things are maybe 62% weird or approximately 78% uncomfortable but I’d like to think about it.
Everything is now absolute. Weird? 100%. Awkward? 100%. Amazing? 100%. Traumatizing? Apparently, also 100%.
Which makes me wonder. What happens to the other 99 percentages?
As a psychologist, I feel compelled to ask: Is this actually 100% true, or are we just emotionally rounding up?
Because sometimes something isn’t 100% anything.
Sometimes it’s 73% weird, 18% fascinating, and 9% “I’m going to need a snack before I process this.”
And honestly? That sounds a lot more psychologically accurate to me.
Categories: Culture, identity, mental health, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
Ah, the catch-phrases people try out, get stuck with for a while.
“I appreciate you.” is another one. I don’t get it, but these things are the best of viral – they come, they dance around, they stay a while – and then vanish in a cloud of smoke, never to be ‘cool’ again.
Don’t try to capture the species. Just enjoy it as long as its silly life lasts. Later, it will precisely pin you to a year, a decade.
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