“Delusional,” as a colloquial concept, got a makeover last year. Like they are wont to do with crop tops, Gen Z–ers slashed it into a shorter, cheekier version of itself: being “delulu,” unlike its predecessor, isn’t always a bad thing,. It can simply mean believing in yourself, despite all evidence to the contrary. If you hold fast and want something hard enough, the delulu doctrine states, it might just happen for you.
While “delulu” is a delighligh neologism, if you’ll indulge a brief solluluquy from me, as a life philosophy I’ve often found it wanting. Related ideas include manifesting and faking it till you make it. This is at odds with my view that the way through is usually to be realistic and do the work.
Taylor Swift, however, throws a huge wrench into my commitment to pragmatism. The past year of Taylor Swift’s life essentially functions as a permission slip to be completely delulu. Her romance with football player Travis Kelce has played out like some kind of rom-com–meets–inspirational sports documentary from the very start, and it all culminated this past weekend with Kelce and Swift kissing on the field after his team won the Super Bowl.
Is the lesson for us normal people some crap about how it’s only when you let go of your wildest dreams that they will come true? That “love will find you when you least expect it” song and dance? Of course, there’s always the possibility that we shouldn’t be looking for life lessons in the story of a billionaire who, despite her fondness for playing the underdog, was always going to wind up on top. My delulu and her delulu are not the same, by orders of magnitude.
Life never simply arrives at perfect bliss and freezes there. It might instead bring you a whole new set of problems to deal with, like random people and media outlets whispering about when you’re gonna get married. In other words, even when your
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