People have apathy because it makes them happy. Nothing makes us happier than not giving a shit about something and doing nothing about it.
If I have to care and do something about something, my happiness level will go down. So I may as well not do anything.
I’m apathetic about parallel parking. I nailed it on my driving test but it’s been all downhill since then. So, now I don’t do it anymore, to me it doesn’t exist. It occupies no space in my brain. I have a file folder in there called “Parallel Parking” but it’s empty. I know shit all about it other than it’s called “Parallel Parking”.
What re you apathetic about?
* When I wrote this title I thought “since happy is an adjective and happiness is a noun, then the noun version of apathy must be apathiness”. Cool! They rhyme. But upon error checking my work I found that apathy has, in fact, been a noun all along. So, there is no such word as “apathiness”. But I still think it works and I’m standing by it.
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