I am increasingly concerned about the alarming incidence of cutting people out of our lives. These are the situations I mean:
"I am living my life on a frequency of positivity and good vibes. I refuse to be dragged down by anyone with a negative outlook who doesn't believe in the goals pasted from magazines on my vision board. If you are a negative you will be removed from my life!"
How this actually looks: they cut out all the people who are struggling and might need help or a friend, out of the mistaken belief that life is all about success at the expense of loving others, and that people created their own joblessness or family troubles with bad vibes or something. I don't really feel like I have to elaborate on this.
The other case is when armchair psychologists, from the internet or otherwise, decide that somebody's mom/dad/aunt/brother/boyfriend/wife/boss whatever is a super huge psychopathic narcissist sociopath insert other multi-syllabic adjective. These cases are often one-sided where we have no idea what is really going on.
I wouldn't have a problem with people empathizing or suggesting solutions, if the solution wasn't almost always to diagnose the offender and advise immediate cessation of all contact. It's absurd. We've all become so selfish and independent that any human frailties are now addressed by demonizing and dehumanizing someone, no longer a person but an adjective. And the answer is always to leave…sometimes it gets to the point where it almost seems like people are bullying the person into cutting off contact.
No, I am not talking about actual abuse. When people do the above lightly, all they do is make a mockery of people who are in serious situations and need to leave.
Related to this is the fact that every situation is unique and there exist people who continue to speak to someone who has hurt them in some way, usually with strong boundaries and a strong outside support network. It's their business, not mine, and I can't imagine how badly they would be judged by some internet psychoanalysts.
Other than that, screen addictions, and the idea that not knowing how to cook somehow makes you cute.