Trolls

We all know they’re out there, the trolls, and this morning I got a doozie of a comment. It was so long and so detailed and so awful that my first thought was, “Gee, this person has been following me a long time to know all of that! Why bother to come here to read these posts if they think so little of me?” Then I read it again and I swear to you, it was just so awful that I burst out laughing! This person threw some facts at me, disparaging me for everything from my weight to my mental health issues and so many other things I just sort of sat in awe and wonder. I mean, I hope it gave them some satisfaction to have gotten all that off their chest. Ha ha ha, I almost posted the whole comment here but what’s the point? We could have all had a good laugh together, and then gone on with our day. Frankly I wouldn’t give this ridiculous troll the time of day or the satisfaction of their words having an audience.

The thing that it made me realize, once again, is how many idiots there are out there, obviously without lives or anything to do, that just will rove about the internet being mean, and frankly — and I want you all to take this in — don’t mean a hill of beans in the long run. DO NOT EVER LET THE TROLLS STOP YOU FROM DOING WHAT YOU DO! I certainly am not! I write very openly about my mental health struggles, I have been open about my weight as I entered this keto journey and yes I’ve a long way to go but I’m not only doing it I don’t need anyone’s approval nor do I need anyone applauding me along the way. I’m doing this for me and I feel so good and it’s so satisfying nothing anyone says will make a difference.

And I will continue to write openly about my days, good and bad, because in the main what I want people to know, people who are suffering and struggling, is that we can have very hard times, we can have very hard things to deal with in life, BUT THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE, WE ALWAYS HAVE VALUE AND WORTH, AND WE CAN MAKE IT! One day at a time. I think, despite it all, we keep on keeping on, reach out to other people with love and compassion, and do the work we know we are meant to do, in my case work I have been doing for 40 years, and know in my heart I am meant to do. That’s all I need to know, and I am happy and at peace with that.

I hear all the time from people who are positively devastated by a troll’s comments. Some have shut down their blogs or stopped doing the work they are doing, and this breaks my heart. A troll is a sick and a sad and a lonely, miserable, pitiful person. I said a prayer for this one, deleted the comment, and went about my day. And I am really only writing about it here because I want others who receive these kind of mean comments to consider the source, have a good laugh, delete the comment and go on. Because if you are not hitting a nerve they wouldn’t comment, and if you’re hitting a nerve you’re making a difference, and by God if you’re making a difference you better keep on keeping on! We NEED you.

I’m going to stop here. I’ve just had another good laugh. Sticks and stones may break my bones but trolls will never hurt me. Sorry honey, I know you did your best. It was lost on me. I may be overweight and some days crazy as a loon but I’m secure in who I am, in what my gifts and talents are, and I shall keep on keeping on. Your efforts have gone for naught. And really you gave me such a good laugh!

Seriously folks, don’t let the turkeys get you down. Their words are just drivel. Gobble, gobble, gobble…