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Barring having gone through a true trauma, if one more grown*ss person calls herself broken all because she’s had a few heartbreaks, a handful of men disappointed her, maybe she was cheated on, or she’s exhausted by the lack of prospects out there, we may just have to open a 24-hour preschool to throw these people in because calling oneself broken is childish. And if you were truly broken, you wouldn’t be going about your day, conducting business, hitting the gym and seeing friends. You would need constant care. “Broken” is a term people misuse and abuse and it has to stop. But more than that, calling yourself broken is not productive or useful. Here is why calling yourself broken is a cop-out.
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It takes no agency in a solution
If you say you’re broken, you’re saying you are beyond repair. You’re essentially taking the task of bettering yourself off of your shoulders—you’re the world’s problem now. Broken things are beyond repair, right? But you’re not. So stop saying this.
