The single worst thing you can tell someone in an attempt to comfort them is “everyone does it”. How the hell is that supposed to make me feel better. Aren’t you not supposed to listen to peer pressure? So I can listen to it when I fuck up but if everyone is smoking or drinking or taking turns on that one 14 year chick who’s too plastered to say no (and seriously, she’s pretty hot), I suddenly have to stop? That’s retarded.
I always feel like a retard when I hear that. I’m not using the word as a euphemism, I actually mean that I feel like a mentally handicapped person when someone tells me “Its alright. Everyone does it.” It should’ve been avoidable then. Its like when lemmings (nature’s retards) follow each other off a cliff. You’d think at least one of them would think “wait, that will kill me. I should stop”. If everyone does it, it should be incredibly apparent and therefore avoidable. But no, you always get that stupid monatomic “Everyone does it therefore its okay”.
That logic is just dumb, just dumb. Just fucking dumb. Its like something Forrest Gump or Billy Bob Thorton would say. Individuality is supposed to help separate us from the communists right? So why do we conveniently forget this in the case of a massive fuck-up. The theme song for that kids tv show “Arthur” actually says that “believing in yourself is the place to start”. This is conveniently forgotten if you accidentally run over a squirrel or shoot your dog with a crossbow or something. You know, cause everyone does it. So its okay.
