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2. Lonely Teenagers Are Taking Cabbages For A Walk

A story from May this year in certain online versions of newspapers that, incredibly, has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media to date, this revolves around Chinese teenagers suffering from alienation, loneliness and depression taking cabbages for a walk on leads instead of dogs, and learning to communicate and socialise with other cabbage-walking social introverts. Apparently psychiatrist Wen Chao said of the therapeutic tool: €œThe idea is simple €“ you feel as lonely and as simple as a cabbage, so you begin to act like one and befriend one. And in that acceptance comes change.€ Where to begin, where to begin. Not with the Metro or the Star or the Huffington Post, all of whom ran the story with a straight face. How about with the 14,200 people who€™ve shared the Metro€™s story of Friday 2nd May on social media in the three months since then? Or how about with the Metro€™s use of the following quote by one such afflicted teenager, again without twigging that it was, just possibly, a little tongue in cheek: €œI feel I can transfer my negative thoughts about myself to the cabbage, go for a walk with it and come home feeling better about myself. If I see someone else its easy to start up a conversation with them about their cabbage, and they are better than dogs as they don€™t bark, or start fights with other cabbages, it doesn€™t even need feeding, or leave a mess on the pavement. In fact afterwards, I can throw the cabbage away and feel that I have tossed my feelings out with it.€ What about if the people in question were performance artists, putting together a live art piece? This explanation has the dual advantage of being true, and being the only one that actually makes sense. Despite this, the story is still running as originally published on the Metro€™s website.