Which is a
more important life achievement: graduating from an Ivy League law school or
meeting the person you want to spend the rest of your life with? For one
University of Pennsylvania law student, it's definitely the latter. The
legal-world blog Above the law recently
published a mushy Facebook post from a Penn law student to her boyfriend, in
which she says that finding him was more important than being the first person
in the family to go to college or landing her dream job.
The post, titled "YOU ARE THE BEST THING EVER HAPPENED TO ME" (yes,
there seems to be a missing word there) continues with a list of the love-struck lawyer's life
accomplishments, including getting a college scholarship and "winning 2nd
place at national moot court competition," and
then her insistence that her man trumps all of them.
Above the Law editor Elie Mystal called the note "a
humble brag’ a term popularized by "Parks and
Recreation" writer and producer Harris Wittels that refers to a boast or self-adulation disguised
as a humble comment, usually in social media. The humblebrag has become such a
widespread phenomenon that Wittels's Twitter
account – dedicated solely to retweeting humblebrags, including those
by celebrities like "Entourage" star Jerry Ferrara, and radio host Cody
Alan, eventually reached 258,000 followers. (Though the
Twitter feed is no longer active, the hashtag remains popular.) He even
published a
satirical book on the topic, "Humblebrag: The Art of False
Modesty," in 2012.
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