It Gets Better

Comfort for struggles

It Gets Better is a phrase associated with a 2010 social media campaign reassuring LGBTQ+ youth that life improves after the isolation and bullying common in adolescence.

The message has broadened into general encouragement for anyone enduring temporary hardship: I know things are rough now, but it gets better.

Related

optimism · perseverance · resilience · LGBTQ · coming out · born this way · suicide prevention · tomorrow · brighter · struggle · youth · high school · bullying · dark times · survival · courage · hang in there · promise

Opposites
trajectory of hope/despair

It Gets Betterabandon all hope

hopelessness · despair · giving up · terminal decline · nihilism

temporal change in conditions

It Gets Betterdeterioration

Process of declining quality

decline · downward spiral · entropy · decay · regression

messaging/social movement stance

It Gets Betterfatalism

Doctrine of inevitable outcomes

defeatism · toxic positivity · false hope

Family

it, its, itself, get, gets, getting, got, gotten, getter

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Mostly American · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG