Anytime someone pulls that phrase on me, I look and them and slowly say, “You’re right. It definitely is, what it is.” Then they have the look of realization on how much of a filler thing that is to say.
A variation is, “It certainly isn’t what it isn’t”.
You just gotta accept that people are going to say thought-terminating cliches to you. You only live once, man, and you gotta do what you gotta do. Que sera sera.
The problem with thought terminating cliches like “it is what is is”, is that it promotes lazy thinking.
You may as well say "I’ve encountered another problem which I’m not going to attempt to resolve. "
Ok, so you’ve got it all figured out huh? You earn a lot of money, are in really good shape, eat healthy self prepared food, have a good relationship with everyone around you, have everything in your home organized and tidy, have hobbies that fulfill you… and you still have enough time to post on lemmy.
All by the power of never giving in to “it is what it is” but instead carefully dissecting and solving everything in your waking life.
Props my man, what shall we call you? Captain Solveitall? Supersolver? Something else?
That’s not really what I’m saying… at all.
Everyone encounters unsolvable problems, whether or not they favor thought terminating cliches. However, we also encounter problems which only appear to be unsolvable. My point is, if you take the attitude that “it is what it is”, you’ll never know the difference.
You can call me captain solveitall if you wish, but I suspect that won’t make you any less miserable.
If you try to solve everything you won’t solve anything. Life is just too complex.
There aren’t only solvable or unsolvable problems. You also have to consider constraints like time, money, physical and mental health and whatever else you can think of. Which becomes a murky soup of tasks.
Sometimes it’s just best to say “it is what it is” for your own mental health. I’m sure you’ve done it, you just haven’t thought or said those specific words. Otherwise you’d not be posting on lemmy, you’d be out there solving problems.
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We all know the help button only leads you to a useless Microsoft help page that may or may not be horrendously outdated or even not existent anymore
If you press “Help” they put you in a room with push handles, polished metal mirrors and take away you shoe laces.
