It’s become kinda fun to pick apart some of the bullshit imbedded in common pop new-age stuff, and this is a good one…
YouTube served up a video recommendation: “You will be chased after this video… MANIFESTATION…” (the algorithm surely fitting it into the intersection of dating/flirting stuff I’ve been watching lately and more regular personal development and ‘spiritual’ type content.) Oh this was begging for it from the get-go.
The video didn’t even need watching to get it’s premise: ‘chasing bad, attracting good, get your romantic interests to chase you.’
Anyone else see it already??
Like, so it’s bad to be in a vibration of wanting, obsessing over someone and chasing them… but good to implement hacks to manipulate outcomes according to your desires to feel special & attractive so someone else obsesses over and chases you… and then get in a relationship with said person doing the “bad” thing…? 😹
As though that is going to be the foundation of a stable, healthy, lasting relationship…? 🤨
Bad to obsess & chase, yourself… but good to enter a relationship with someone who obsesses & chases…? 🤔
Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man out of touch with the younger generation’s new-age approach to “manifesting” your dream person. Or maybe just smell the 🐂💩 miles away.
Maybe it’s just some young pretty lady who really is so special to have stumbled across all the “secrets” of “manifesting” one’s perfect life, with a heart of gold who’s intent on sharing them with the world so everybody can be happy, healthy, wealthy and in love (with obsessive chasers… or maybe there’s a part two explaining how to change the person once you’ve reeled them in like a fish).
Or maybe it’s a fine snapshot of a narcissistic culture, in which “influencer” is the aspired-to status - big tits and perfect makeup just part of the package necessary to reel in subscribers & followers, a means to an end of what outcomes appease the ego… same same as whatever “manifestation” “technique” or “method” flips one into the “special” seat, putting the burden of “bad obsessive chasing” onto someone else - effectively diminishing them to an object in the game of getting what we want the way we want it, without concern of the integrity & health of whatever relationship is bound to follow, having started on such a foundation.
I could be wrong here, just some asshole projecting misassumptions, shitting on others' positivity parade. 🤷♂️
Need more be said…?