FireAndLighting
TMF Regular
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2021
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I was just sitting here thinking while I'm waiting for my 3D render to finish, and I got a barrage of really embarrassing things I did in the past hit me all at once. A lot of it was online when I had Facebook, and I'm realizing now that I was quite the keyboard warrior back in the day. I think a lot of it was because I didn't have any real way of venting my anger out because people just largely ignored me and my parents would either tell me to "just deal with it" or they would just act all high and mighty because they were just older than me, which honestly drove me up the wall pretty bad. Another issue I had at the time (and still do) was my fanatically religious grandmother. If I did ANYTHING she didn't like it was automatically a bad thing and I was being sinfully influenced by "bad people". Just listening to my favorite bands at the time (Disturbed, Nickelback, Breaking Benjamen, etc) was the equivalent of listening to the "Devil's music", despite the fact these bands often sang about things she agreed with politically.
I honestly have a lot of regret about what I've done and said in the past now. I now know my friends at the time saw me in a different light whenever I posted those comments on social media back in the day, but how else was I supposed to vent out my frustration whenever nobody ever listened to me? I wish I could go back and change the things I did by never getting on social media, but the past is the past and everything is written in stone. Whatever was said was said and there's nothing I can do about it now.
I try to be a good person. I try to hold respect towards anyone regardless of their own personal beliefs. I was raised as a Christian, but I never took it seriously like so many others do. I'm not arrogant enough to say someone else is wrong just because my book said so. If you hold different political opinions than me, then so be it. It doesn't mean we still can't find common ground on certain topics. Everybody, be it Conservative or Liberal, loves animal videos. We might root for the same sports teams, and we might like the same video game genre.
I think social media in the end has exposed a lot of people to the monsters they really are. You can say whatever you want when you're safely tucked away behind a keyboard in your own house. But I feel like most people, regardless of our difference, would get along fine if we met in person. Of course, there will always be extremists who just refuse to get along with anybody, but I think a lot of the division people see in today's world is largely due to the rise of social media.
I deleted my social media long ago and only use YouTube and DeviantArt, while watching the occasional TikTok videos. I've honestly been a lot happier in life without social media, and I would encourage people to go even just one week without looking at their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever else they use. You might find life is a lot more fun whenever you're not watching the life of someone you went to high school with and haven't talked to since graduation. That's just my opinion, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCjPQ6UKlU
I honestly have a lot of regret about what I've done and said in the past now. I now know my friends at the time saw me in a different light whenever I posted those comments on social media back in the day, but how else was I supposed to vent out my frustration whenever nobody ever listened to me? I wish I could go back and change the things I did by never getting on social media, but the past is the past and everything is written in stone. Whatever was said was said and there's nothing I can do about it now.
I try to be a good person. I try to hold respect towards anyone regardless of their own personal beliefs. I was raised as a Christian, but I never took it seriously like so many others do. I'm not arrogant enough to say someone else is wrong just because my book said so. If you hold different political opinions than me, then so be it. It doesn't mean we still can't find common ground on certain topics. Everybody, be it Conservative or Liberal, loves animal videos. We might root for the same sports teams, and we might like the same video game genre.
I think social media in the end has exposed a lot of people to the monsters they really are. You can say whatever you want when you're safely tucked away behind a keyboard in your own house. But I feel like most people, regardless of our difference, would get along fine if we met in person. Of course, there will always be extremists who just refuse to get along with anybody, but I think a lot of the division people see in today's world is largely due to the rise of social media.
I deleted my social media long ago and only use YouTube and DeviantArt, while watching the occasional TikTok videos. I've honestly been a lot happier in life without social media, and I would encourage people to go even just one week without looking at their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever else they use. You might find life is a lot more fun whenever you're not watching the life of someone you went to high school with and haven't talked to since graduation. That's just my opinion, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCjPQ6UKlU