It is the era of technology, the era where a single button press does it all....
..."does it all", being clearly the key phrase!
A negative comment or disrespectful status update or be it a disheartening criticism, now a days, wins more admiration or "like", as the virtual language suggests.
The freedom of expression is taken a bit seriously when the matter of putting down someone comes into play. Everyone has there own opinion and as a community of human beings we should respect that.
Personally, I never found the appeal to humiliate or negate someone in a public place (neither real nor virtual); that might be the reason because I am far down in the line of evolution.
If I do not agree with someone, I simply scroll down to other contents (there is that option, you know); but then I am the technologically challenged and naive person in the smart era!
Don't take me wrong, I am all for taking criticisms, I am proven wrong ten times a day by statistics, data and other more experienced fellow researchers; but that falls under constructive criticisms; I never found the appeal in criticizing someone in term of their personal tastes, preferences and choices, but then I might be the outlier among the otherwise "cool" people.
In the generation of "my life my rule", I can not stop anyone from doing anything actually. I am aware of it, so I do what I do best, write about it, because it hurts me at times. I could not care less, but there comes a point where I do, because I find the trolling unnecessary (toward anything or anyone).
Well, there is always the back-up of your friends if someone is bothering you, but then I do not think it is much of use when one does not have many of them as well in life!
And then it all comes down to the fact that "your happiness and peace lies within you"
....in short it is your own responsibility to choose your battles, choose where to use your energy and choose when to bother yourself with stuffs!
I will however never get the appeal of demeaning someone just for the sake of fun or for proving my point!
...I find it of no shame admitting that I still fail to recluse myself at times from such menial stupidity but then again, I am human, yet I try!
Coming back on to the first thought, if "does it all" is the key and one has the means, motive and opportunity, to do something positive with it, we should at the least, try!
If your positivism comes from negatively affecting others, then you have a problem.
Please do not do that!
Make a resolution for the coming year that, if we do not have anything positive to offer to our fellow human beings, at least we won't be resonating any negativity toward them.
#BeKindToOthers
#StayBlessed!
