You’re so Cliche, You Probably Think this Post is About You

If there is one thing I love shamelessly, it is a good cliche. I love the way the roll off your tongue when your trying so hard to be the bigger person, when all you really want to do is exact your deserved revenge. And the way they haunt your conscience when you regretfully give in to the seduction of perceived human nature, and actually seek revenge. I love the mystery they hold, with just a few words formed into one inspiring sentence you have the power to change the world, offering pearls of wisdom if we dare to believe we can. You can leave a lover breathless and your enemy speechless. We carry them as weapons of mass instruction, telling us how to live and prosper. How to be the change, how to forgive and let go. How to love, how to change our thinking and what not to think. And yet, still we fumble. Not all, but you know who you are.

Have cliches become so cliché that they now represent what we wish we were rather than who we actually are. Have they lost their meaning by becoming tools of communication for those we no longer talk to? If everyone is sharing them, saying them, believing them, why isn’t the world a happier place? Why do we not have more free spirits and peace love and happiness, but rather loose lips and hypocrites?

With the parade of repetitive reminders of how easy it is to live happily ever after, why wouldn’t you want to jump on the band wagon and toot your own horn to inspire others to join the fun? If we are truly just walking each other home, shouldn’t that urge us to shine a light for others to see, instead of the blind leading the blind?

If you are a woman preaching the way a man should treat his queen, are you living that belief by the way you allow men treat you? Or are you allowing trolls to inhabit your kingdom? Do you even know what your standards are outside of a few scripted words?

If you speak of letting go, do you publicly forgive but privately stalk? Do you even know why or what you need to let go of. Is it possible that thing you think is only a symptom of the real problem?

And if you proclaim to give it to God, why are you still on your social media soap opera box? Are you emanating the judgment free persona exemplified by the essence of the son of God, or are you just judging another for sinning differently than you?

It seems to me a cliché is more than just fleeting words on a pretty picture, but a scientific phenomenon. The reason behind the why. Why should I forgive? Love? Let go? Move on? Be the change? Endure pain? Just do it? What exactly happens to my body, and my energy, my brain, my DNA, my aura, my connection to the world? It’s not just a nice idea to forgive, it is a quantum leap.

So the next time you speak, post or forward something ask yourself is kind, is it necessary, is it helpful and most important, is it true? Not to avoid being a contradiction, but in order to not be so cliché.