29 July

Once you see toxic positivity, you see it everywhere. It’s maybe why we don’t discuss grown-up issues much (too much ‘negativity’, apparently), but instead focus obsessively on our curated online persona, which is an image and not an actual person. That fake veneer of happiness hides an almost total absence of real world resilience. Terrified of giving offence or discussing anything for fear of having to confront real feelings and problems. Those real things are the essence of being alive, not this airbrushed insane grinning version of ourselves.