Settled Down Doesn’t Need To Be Unsettling

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Does the phrase ‘settle down’ fill you with dread? To many, including (waves hand in the air) me, it did. But why? Why did these words make me feel like I suddenly had a strong urge to emigrate to another country and sell mangos on the beach? I’ve always seen myself as a person that doesn’t easily succumb to society’s biases; but, how could I explain the impending doom I felt from these two little words?