We’ve all seen them, an inspirational quote on a pretty background scattered throughout our Instagram feeds that are meant to inspire us to overcome our problems and start each day anew and empowered.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Or so says Molière. In my humble opinion though, these little snippets are not always helpful or necessarily relevant, they may offer a short little seratonin boost whilst doom scrolling through Instagram, but in reality they are not substantively useful to most people. For you see, these quotes treat the adversity one might be experiencing like a singular problem, a mountain to climb, some singular challenge to overcome, but rarely are our problems so simple. If only.
