“Why do I, and everyone I love, pick people who treat us like we’re nothing?” - Sam, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
This is something I cannot agree with. Okay look. Maybe there are really such "selfless" people out there, people who do really pick people who treat them like they're nothing...
but that's a lie isn't it? At least I can never say this statement if I were being honest.
Why do I pick people who treat me like nothing? You simply don't.
Loaded behind that question appears to be an insidious play of self-pity. It says, why do I make much of people who make little (or nothing) of me. Why am I so awesome that I treasure people who don't even treasure me.
But before that, I wonder if we ever really pick people who treat us like we're nothing. Or are we over generalizing the moments when they did treat us like nothing and let it mislead us into forming this picture that they as a whole indeed consistently treat us like nothing?
Who really treats you like nothing? I think the random passerby on the street or the ignorant person (ignorant of your existence) in a foreign land is perhaps the only persons fitting of that criteria.
so really. what's left? "Nothing" is figurative since it really means "little" or worse, "I feel that it is little".
Drop the act, no one is so lacking of self-love that they will ever pick people who treat them like nothing.
No one can really say that and mean it. Seriously, we can all stop acting noble.
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