It is a low day when you’re called out by the drive thru hot dog stand
Sir this is a hot dog
In A Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley says, “I wear the chain I forged in life”. This is a metaphor for the negative consequences of his actions, which weigh him down as a ghost. Marley made the chain link by link and yard by yard, and he wore it of his own free will.
It’s basically saying Karma is real. It’s meant for a simpler time than today as this story is from Charles Dickens in 1843.
I understand the context of this is from Charles Dickens, but another interpretation I’ve gleaned from it is how we as a collective have forged our own chains.
Not only in the state structure that we uphold lest we be struck down by it, but also in arbitrary norms which we all force each other to conform to. It can be understood both as ‘we’ as individuals reaping what we sow, but also ‘we’ as a society imprisoning ourselves together in our own construct.
So… Queer folks have created queerphobia? And Black and brown people, racism? And disabled people, ableism? And abuse victims, their own abuse? And so on…?
Fuck this gaslighting victim blaming noise.
It’s a quote from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. Scrooge is told this by the ghost of an old business partner, warning him that his miserly greed has consequences. It’s a good book, but if you’re not up for reading it, you can get the gist from “The Muppets Christmas Carol”. 🎅
So my point stands - this isn’t about “self fulfilment and happiness”, nor is it in any way a motivational quote.
Christ on a bike, literary metaphors must be a nightmare when you’re constantly trying to be offended on other people’s behalf to draw attention to yourself 😂
Trying to be offended on other people’s behalf
its called empathy, dork
If you find yourself being overly empathetic in every day situations you may actually be a bit codependent in other aspects of your life, no judgement or anything just saying.
Ah yes, showing empathy is actually a sign of mental illness, please provide anything resembling evidence for your claim, because I think its made the fuck up.
Empathy is good and helps us cohere socially and understand each other, no empathy is bad and actually a sign of several personality disorders.
You may want to concern yourself more with how you find yourself than how others find themselves, cuz I think you got it twisted
I was mistaken, not codependent, but BPD/manic. It’s a fairly well documented phenomenon.
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That’s really missing the point.
All those things you’ve described are taking away from People’s options, their choices. They’re disempowering.
The point of the quote is to remind people that they have more power in their lives than they think. You have choices you don’t yet realise.
Its not a cure all, it is worth knowing.
We all forge chains on ourselves because we had to at some point, often just to survive. Knowing that, we can learn to break those chains when we don’t need them anymore.
… That’s certainly an interpretation.
Have you seen Fight Club? Think along the line of ‘things we own end up owning us’.
You might want to work on your literacy.
You can ignore the sign jesus christ
That was how I read it, idk what is up with some of these other commenters, where they literally can’t conceive of that meaning
Its not philosophically “deep” in a funny place, it is exactly the kind of philosophy you would expect on the sign of a chain hot dog restaurant
