I see the hatred shared online from people who despise the hatred. I see people getting angry acting as if I should only post stuff that they like and God forbid we don't see things the same way.
How we treat one another these days is mind boggling. How we censor others is mind boggling. How we get up on our pedestals and somehow demand others treat us as if we have all the answers is mind boggling.
We have replaced love with hate. We have replaced our religious beliefs with intolerance. We have denigrated those that wish to speak up by making them out to be horrible people we make fun of and call names.
What gives here?
Where is our humanness?
Where is the love we proclaim we have?
We can't walk down both sides of the fence at one time. We can't proclaim we love others and we want tolerance if we throw mud at those who disagree with us.
Aren't we better than that? Don't we realize that the more we do this online that we're just being anything but human?
Seems like I have more rhetorical questions than there are answers. Maybe the answers are there, but no one wishes to see it or hear it.
Heck, I don't have all the answers either, but I at least try to not make fun of others. I try to not degrade and mock other people.
Our social media accounts show our true nature I think. If someone wrote a book about us based upon what we share and like online, I've got a feeling that many people would be doing damage control.
It is sad. It angers me to see the way we treat each other, especially online. It angers me to see people talk about love and respect and tolerance, but then they go and do the same thing they despise.
It almost, no it does, remind me of the house I grew up in with the church-going-family who hated everyone that didn't think like them. Maybe that's why this bothers me so much. I have already lived this once in my life.
Little did I know, I would have to relive it again. Where's the spaceship - I want to find a new planet that has tolerance and love, not hatred disguised as love.
May we all try a little harder to share a little less online and love a little more. That's my hope!
Maybe we could work to be a little bit more conscious and aware. After all, those things are not evident because of words, but because of the actions we portray.
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