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True History: Live, Laugh, Love
The True History series consists of in-depth, totally accurate research. Each instance is fastidiously researched using reliable indicators of record such as lying, exaggeration, and deceit. All True History articles are guaranteed to be poorly researched, with cognitive bias and ego dispersed throughout.
“Live, Laugh, Love”. The phrase is simply a banal motivational slogan found on coffee mugs at Target and Walmart, right? Live, Laugh Love (or LLL as we’ll call it hereto forward) was the initial materialistic sneak attack in the war of toxic positivity against reality. This initial salvo occurred in the late 2000s, and it’s only a matter of time before the evil forces behind it strike again. Toxic Positivists are staunchly against being a-normal-person-who-has-a-wide-range-of-feelings-and-emotions-and-expresses-them-given-the-circumstance-instead-of-buying-a-FREAKING-pillow-with-directives-on-living-their-life-and-suppressing-emotions. Toxic positivity is the notion that you can simply hold back negative feelings in order to fill the resultant void with good feelings, yoga, and positivity as opposed to substances, social media, and credit card debt like a normal person.
LLL is a phrase that has been embroidered onto hand towels by people who work 14-hour days with suicide nets surrounding the factory building that they also sleep in. That’s what makes it such a…
