Notes on Bullies
I'll let you in on a little secret - there's no master plan to my posts. I have a lot of ideas I'd like to explore and share, otherwise it comes as it flows. After encountering MAVEN’s first troll last week, I had to scrap 3 posts because everything I wrote was coming up caustic. Energy wasted on a spineless dude I don't know whose best face forward is him in a Snapchat filter of a dog on Social. They say God has a sense of humor!
What that person said to me was impersonal and untrue, but the cruelty stung - inflaming many more significant abuses I've painstakingly labored to overcome. In short, I was triggered. The natural thing, the easy thing, is to become angry and retaliate in kind. I could have battled it out with him on Facebook, shared some misplaced rant with you here today, or worse, taken it out on everyone around me like that jerk seems to be doing, but I'm committed to peace, and have decided to share these insights instead.
As America recently honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I don't think I've ever been so much in awe of his accomplishments as this year. We tend to place people in roles (doctor, minister, activist) that squarely define how we think about them, forgetting the complexities of their humanity. I was about to give you all a NOVEL about ASSHOLES in reaction to one provocative comment on the internet, but MLK demonstrated nonviolence and peaceful opposition to the most insidious injustices and murderous cruelties known to the Free World?? His contributions to Civil Rights aside, the man should get a holiday for sainthood alone!
They say hurt people hurt people. America has a lot of hurting people, and many of them are trolling social media. Others are trolling the streets - they might be your neighbor, or your boss, or your landlord. Looking at ourselves and the shit we carry into our interactions and relationships is courageous, relentless work. But if one man, finding strength within himself to change anger into action, transforming a broken nation that led The World to greater peace and prosperity in utilizing all of Our People's best attributes, then I think we can do it too.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in another's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3
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