My favourite flowers are roses – yes, the red ones
Old couples make me so happy, and young love makes me think,
“Dear future husband, what’s taking you so long?
I want to have adventures with you too!
Don’t you think you have tested my patience enough?”
And smiling babies with a cool afro, and cute baby hairs give me baby fever.
It’s tempting to say my favourite flowers are some flowers I can’t even pronounce
Or that I find love boring and sappy
But I don’t. And I don’t want to lie.
I am a cliché.
I’ve heard people say, “I used to like that song
Then everyone started liking it, so I stopped.”
I still don’t understand how a song loses its value
Just because the next person is listening to it too.
Even if it was overplayed – my theory is, you never really loved it in the first place.
Anyway. You know that “My Tomorrow Must Be Greater Than Today” song?
It got soooo popular
Everyone was singing it at some point.
I still jam to it. It gives me so much hope and I believe in it.
I’m such a cliché.
“Me Before You”? “The Fault in Our Stars”? “A Thousand Splendid Suns”?
Yup, I totally cried and I’m no longer ashamed of admitting it.
SPOILER ALERT! (Even though I’m sure the whole world already knows the ending of these books)
Sad endings make me emotional
Worse still, I read those books when I was binge-reading anything to do with death
I wanted anything with a sad ending because I thought happy endings were boring
Only to find myself hoping the book would have a “happily ever after” anyway.
Ugh!
Why do writers play with our emotions like that?
I was totally rooting for the protagonists!
I am a cliché because I actually quit my job to do the things I love and to volunteer
“Oh goodness, there’s another one of those girls – thinking they can change the world.”
Maybe I can’t. Maybe I won’t. Or maybe I’ll only change one life
And that’s OK. I’ll still consider myself lucky
Cheesy quotes about happiness, self-love and purpose?
Those are right up my street
Heck, I use them to caption pictures on Instagram
And I totally feel pumped after watching motivational videos
Personal development books fuel me
I am a cliché. And I love it.
You should too.
If you ever feel ‘cheap’ or ‘ordinary’ for liking what thousands of other people like
Shake yourself.
Tell yourself it’s OK to enjoy things everyone else is enjoying. Don’t try too hard to look cool by being different.
I don’t mean be a people-pleaser
Or a follow-the-crowd kinda person
I mean, have your own principles
But for Pete’s sake
If you genuinely enjoy something
Don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it just because they think it’s cliché.
