I don’t, and you’ve made me furious, Daily Prompt

Daily writing prompt

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

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Literature Wednesday continues 🙂

Well, now you’ve irritated a quite patient and understanding me, Daily Prompt. Are you proud of yourself?

I’ve read too many books, mostly fictional, but there are quite a lot from other fields. It never really occurred to me to split them into quotes and worship these thoughts, torn away from the whole, later. Because I’ve learned from the wholeness, and I’ve learned to think with my own head.

Sure, I sometimes quote different authors, but I did it while writing my diploma, and I do it sometimes while writing posts where I used different notions or methods unique or borrowed from a certain author. I also can use a quote or two in conversation, and then it is natural. But still, I don’t worship them and don’t make these quotes something ultimately sacred.

These are just thoughts, sometimes wise, sometimes brilliant, but they aren’t here for praising them, they are meant for us to learn from them. I get it that people like when their own thoughts match the ones produced by the minds of famous people, that it makes these thoughts closer to absolute truth, but it is not my approach at all, sorry. I prefer thinking with my own head, and I appreciate when people do the same.

What makes me furious, though, is not excessive quoting, but the wrong quoting, when the thoughts are attributed to the wrong author. And what sets me ablaze is the fact that people try to win my attention by sending them, along with these images of morning coffees, kissing angels, passing kindness to 40 more people…

Seriously, I ardently hate that because by doing that (and I’m perfectly aware of that) you are saving your time and energy, and treating me in a generic way, exactly the same as you treat another 50 people on the other end of the internet. In most cases, I just stop answering that because I don’t know what I can say so I don’t offend this person.

One of my highest values is authenticity, so if anyone wishes to be my friend, I expect that person to be authentic, speak with their own words, express their own thoughts, and write or tell me: ‘Hey, how are you’, instead of these coffees and gifs because I want to be just as authentic and real in return.

Thank you for reading this! 🙂