This is it. 2017 needs to be the year that everyone stops accepting other people's cruelty. This is the time that people need to figure out that if they're going to hurt someone, then their peers and friends are not going to be behind them anymore. This needs to be the freaking year that it's no longer funny to be "savage" just because you thought long and hard about something clever to say to a person you don't like. People. HOW OLD ARE WE?
And you know what? That question doesn't even apply here. Because even 5 year olds know that if there is a "meanie" on the playground, then they don't get invited to their birthday party. What happened between kindergarten and now that created monsters out of young adults and teenagers? It is not cool to be mean, to insult, to have a "fire" burn, to be completely and utterly heartless.
While you may be having the worst day of your entire life and feel like you have a valid point to angrily throw in someone else's direction because you disagree with them or their lifestyle or maybe kissed your ex or ate the last piece of pizza, NONE of those give you even one ounce of right to diminish someone else's being. I literally could not care less who started it or who deserves it or if you're even right. "Winning" at the expense of someone else's hurt is the biggest loss for you. It can be an insult, some hidden meaning harsh comment, and even something as brainless as profanity, it's not necessary. I mean, do you know everything about the person you're talking to or what they went through that day?
Here's a fact (not a fun fact) : since 1945, the amount of people that have depression hasn't doubled or even tripled. In fact, it is ten times more prevalent today then it was then. Why? Because we now have this messed up idea that it's more important to appear that you know it all and have it all figured out then to stop for one millisecond to think about anyone but yourself. "Well it's a dog eat dog world out there." Ha.. ha. ha ha ha...MAYBEEEE STOP ACTING LIKE ANIMALS. That's why the saying isn't, "It's a human eat human world out there." Because that's barbaric. And we are supposed to be humane (If you can't tell, I'm being very sassy at the moment.) What is it about putting your community, your friends or just other human beings before yourself that is absolutely impossible to comprehend?
Now everyone falls prey to the temptation of standing up for something that you strongly believe in, online or elsewherebut what we don't have to do is make it nasty. Honestly, people are NEVER GOING TO AGREE on everything. That's right! No matter how many well thought out essays and paragraphs and comments you may come up with, it is 9 times out of 10 never going to even budge your opponent. So why, in God's great green earth, do we think that oh, if I insult them or their intelligence, that will make this conversation go better.
So really, what I'm trying to say is, (if you could not pick this up from my long, spirited article) if you don't have something nice to say, please, please, just don't talk. And maybe get some help. (Like seriously, who can't think of one nice thing to say?)
