Comments on: The Sugar Cookie and the Strawberry https://social-legacy.com/the-sugar-cookie-and-the-strawberry-millenials/ by Emily Chang Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:19:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.10 By: Emily Chang https://social-legacy.com/the-sugar-cookie-and-the-strawberry-millenials/#comment-750 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:19:16 +0000 https://social-legacy.com/?p=6278#comment-750 In reply to Minter Dial.

What a thoughtful post, Minter! There’s certainly no one right answer as context, relationship, and experience all inform how we respond in a given moment. As for me? I’d like to think I could endure the sugar cookie treatment and help strawberries thrive. In honesty, I’m probably more built to the former but I’m also working on the latter.

]]> By: Minter Dial https://social-legacy.com/the-sugar-cookie-and-the-strawberry-millenials/#comment-739 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:22:22 +0000 https://social-legacy.com/?p=6278#comment-739 I enjoyed this post, Emily. You bring up a major and most sensitive topic. In the ‘old’ days, we used to talk about having a stiff upper lip and considering it an honorable attitude. Today, it’s generally considered as unhealthy (i.e. too “hard”). Certainly the extent to which we were obliged to have a stiff upper lip was sometimes exaggerated, but in swinging the other way (toward the strawberry), it’s hard to imagine how resilience is built without the experience of true hardships. Today, we seem to prefer the precautionary route, making things safe… While noble in principle, I have to believe that, should (i.e. when) the sh*t truly hits the fan, we will be less well equipped to deal with major hardship. To the point of “lack of war and political persecution” it seems that in their absence, we would rather create new problems and hardships that, in our minds, already seem huge. But wherein lies due perspective?

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