Things that shit me #3
#3 The word “wellness”
This abomination of an empty corporate speak-style word used to describe, well, anything the person using it wants it to be, can usually be found adorning the brochures of yoga schools, vitamin bottles and cosmetics. But it’s also used to describe supposedly enhanced water filtration, pet food, and hemp. It’s the worst kind of touchy-feely Orwellian-ness word that should be the first dropped from the dictionary when space constraints require pruning.
The Queensland University of Technology defines wellness as…
The conscious choices and responsible actions one makes to balance many integrated dimensions (physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, social) of one’s existence to achieve the highest potential for personal health and well-being.
Bollocks. Might as well call it “lifeness” because what QUT’s just described is living.
* spit *
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