That I don’t know or care what it is to..

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Speak your truth? I have been sent various things /poems on Instagram.

It all kind of pretends to be ‘deep’. Things like ‘speak your truth’ or ‘manifest and use energy in the universe’ I feel a bit erm confused cos I don’t feel the need to think on that level.

I wonder what my truth is now? But I just feel a bit am I missing out on something in life by not digging a bit deeper?

Do I need to be supporting my children to connect deeper work themselves? Am I too on the surface.

What is your truth?

All this
…Be
…Surrender
….Abundence
…know yourself etc etc

Mind boggling

Yeah, that is all just crap spouted by Clinton Card wannabe deep thinkers who actually have the intellectual capacity of a teaspoon. Don't give them or their clichéd navel gazing once second of your headspace

Who is sending it?

I feel that people “speaking their truth” are sometimes trying to fight back against society in some way to make an inner voice or feeling heard, perhaps one that has felt marginalised, minimised or dismissed in some way or another. I think there’s something important as a theme here although I think the words are (deliberately??) clumsy and often intended t o shut down response.

However, it has also been adopted in many circumstances for people to purport and affix some degree of credibility their own, often completely untruthful, version of events. These people have completely muddied the concept for everyone else to the point that I now don’t believe a word of it. It’s either the truth or it’s not if we are honest with ourselves and if we have to nominate it “my truth” it implies there’s another version out there that your version simply isn’t quite strong enough to expose as an untruth. Boris Johnson is there latest person to jump on this bandwagon with Greg Hands having announced that he "will outline his version of events" in Parliament this week. Again, language designed to shut down response.

However, an extension of this I’ve seen is among colleagues who are making loud noises about “bringing their whole self” to work, with the implication that everyone else should too. For me, people can bring whatever they want to work in terms of characteristics and culture, but please don’t expect me to do the same as quite frankly work is somewhere I go to get away from a lot of aspects of my life.

It does my head in. And every tiny thing is attributed to the universe looking out for someone I'm looking at you, friend from work who I adore but please for the love of God shut up about this

I think it’s, well, kinda dumb.

Oh friends/family sending me memes or little poems. They’re all getting into - speak to the universe, manifest. Or we are all goddesses. Or being on some deeper spiritual level/connection to earth through being a woman.

I’m trying to describe the sort of stuff I get sent. I just feel like am I missing a trick not going so deep!

Credibility for sure, one person writes abstract poems, using big words and none of it makes any sense.

@SonicWomb

I feel that people “speaking their truth” are sometimes trying to fight back against society in some way to make an inner voice or feeling heard, perhaps one that has felt marginalised, minimised or dismissed in some way or another. I think there’s something important as a theme here although I think the words are (deliberately??) clumsy and often intended t o shut down response.

However, it has also been adopted in many circumstances for people to purport and affix some degree of credibility their own, often completely untruthful, version of events. These people have completely muddied the concept for everyone else to the point that I now don’t believe a word of it. It’s either the truth or it’s not if we are honest with ourselves and if we have to nominate it “my truth” it implies there’s another version out there that your version simply isn’t quite strong enough to expose as an untruth. Boris Johnson is there latest person to jump on this bandwagon with Greg Hands having announced that he "will outline his version of events" in Parliament this week. Again, language designed to shut down response.

However, an extension of this I’ve seen is among colleagues who are making loud noises about “bringing their whole self” to work, with the implication that everyone else should too. For me, people can bring whatever they want to work in terms of characteristics and culture, but please don’t expect me to do the same as quite frankly work is somewhere I go to get away from a lot of aspects of my life.

@SonicWomb I just think people are expected to become some spiritual guru, or those that try to bombard you with their truth like they’ve got some other worldly connection with the universe.

On speaking your truth - most definitely agree everyone is using their version to get by in the world (cause wars).

When someone says ‘speak your truth/know your truth’ I’m like wtf are you doing/going on about.

I have a friend (lives in California) who some time ago was really into those weekend long seminars which purported to be about discovering yourself, nurturing yourself, becoming the you you were always meant to be....she must have spent thousands going to several over the course of a couple years. Did she discover her 'truth'? Did she reach her true potential? Did she understand her inner most feelings and manifest her destiny? Is she enlightened to the true meaning of her existence? No of course not. If a dozen weekend seminars can't do it a few cute quotes won't help either.
These platitudes that appear on Facebook or wherever are occasionally insightful but usually just nice sounding phrases that don't really mean anything. You don't need someone to tell you to 'live laugh love'. Just do what feels right and brings you joy.

Oh god the memes. The faux-deep poetry. It drives me mad.

She called to the wind but it did not respond.
For you can’t tame that which was always wild.
And as she sank to the depths below
She smiled
And said;
Too slow, silver soul.
I was never yours to be captured.

Jesus wept it’s such bullshit.

Thank goodness I’m not the only one! This cult seems to have infiltrated a few people close to me and it’s sending me mad!

WTF is abstract poetry? 🤣

The quotes, poems etc don't mean anything. It's just "nice" to read, and then I go about my daily life. I worked with a girl who was Holier than thou with the quotes and deep meaningful stuff she used to spout in the office, I left as she was a bully.

a poem in which the words are chosen for their aural quality rather than specifically for their sense or meaning.

or just BS words

I do think it’s people mostly trying to find self worth and control over their lives.

Sadly , sticking random quotes in frames around the house is not the way to fix gaps in personality.

I think it's a phrase that once really meant speaking up when you're part of a marginalised or minority community and making your voice heard when it's being excluded - eg, a white person might confidently say that they live in an area where there's hardly any racism and people around them might nod in agreement and accept that as fact, but a Black or Asian person hearing that conversation might have a very different experience that isn't being factored in to the discussion. Obviously in that context it's a good thing.

However ... I think, like many things, it's a phrase that's now been co-opted and is being misused by people who think 'speaking their truth' just means expressing an opinion that is actually in no way a truth, but just a personal view that they happen to hold or a thought they have had that they believe to be profound, in a manner that shuts down any attempt to question it.

Basically, it's become like a Live Laugh Love version of people who defend every questionable view they express by saying 'I've got a right to my opinion' as if that means it's somehow indisputable.