Light Writes

(Photo  in Header by  Álvaro Serrano  on  Unsplash ) I'd like to understand why mental illness and emotional disorders are glorified and made subjects of humour among many within my generation.  I have observed that these rotten roots of glorification run into more areas than just mental illness, including violence, a lack of relational commitment, and self-destructive isolative tendencies.  For me, a doer of, “be loved by God and love others as yourself”, participants in these areas are causes for concern and empathy. As I heal from trauma by faith in the forgiving God at the mention of whom many look away, I cannot help but pose this theory through a rhetorical question: Is making mental illness a subject of humour a coping method for a world that has not accepted healing through Jesus Christ?  A world that refuses to abandon false glory?  Leaning against a wall, I, in metaphor, view the behaviours of men, curious about other ways in which men, ...