The Nice Thing about Pet Peeves is that You Don’t Have to Walk Them!

So many of the things we believe are ideas that were implanted by the authority figures of our youth.  We didn’t know any better – and still believed in authorities – when we were small.  And now we just parrot those ideas without thinking about them.  Add to that all the ideas that are embraced by the media.  We get bombarded by those ideas: 

Buying this car will make you sexy.

Eating this food will kill you.  Except that some number of years later that idea gets reversed and now NOT eating this food will kill you.

The weather is going to be too hot.  Or too cold.  Or too rainy.  Or too snowy.  Or too windy.  Anything other than the “average” is “too…”  But, think about it.  Average is actually not what is normal.  Average means it’s in the middle and by definition, there are a whole lot more numbers higher or lower than “average!”

Or my favorite one from the Catholic Church:  eating meat on Friday is a mortal sin and if you die without going to confession, you will go straight to Hell.  That was what I was taught when I was growing up…  But that got reversed after I became an adult.  So what’s happening to those poor souls who went to Hell for eating meat on Friday?  Are they still in Hell?  Is there an Appeals Court that can intercede for them and get them out?

And why does “liking” something or posting an emoticon following some post on Facebook constitute a conversation?

In the interest of conversation – as in dialogue, not as in emoticons or quick clicks, share your pet peeves.  I’d love to hear them.