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My Response To "Hate"

I'll turn a negative into a positive.

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My Response To "Hate"
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I understand that. But what I don't understand is why people have to be blatantly rude about it.

So quick background story, I wrote my first article and got tons and tons of great feedback. Unfortunately, there will always be a group of people that will have nothing but negative things to say. It didn't bother me because I wrote my article for a number of different reasons, none of which were to offend people. I wrote my article to help other people who have been through what I have been through. I wrote my article to go a different way from other articles, about the same topic, that I have read. I wrote my article about ME and how I turned a negative into a positive and what I learned from it. I was simply letting my feelings out but some people don't see it that way. My article wasn't written in a negative way, and there was no harm in it.

So of course like I said, people are entitled to their opinion and there isn't anything wrong with that. What is wrong is to make negative and degrading social media posts about me. You can dislike and disagree with what I wrote but to call somebody the b- word and to say that they were "raised by wild animals" is just down right rude. For somebody more than twice my age to say, "I always said she was a crazy b**** raised by feral animals!!! Now it's time to play the game...my way!!!!" is just downright ridiculous and I couldn't help but laugh it off. Like what games are we playing? I'm always down for Uno, heck I'm even down for Connect Four!

In fact, I actually couldn't help but laugh at all the negative comments I was reading. They were so far from the truth it was comical. I was reading that I was breaking family bonds and tearing apart relationships. In reality, I was expressing what I learned to help other people who may have needed it.

While I don't believe in bullying or that karma is coming for me like one of the many negative posts stated, I do believe in forgiving people. I do forgive everyone involved in the social media posts. I've learned to take a negative and turn it into a positive. These degrading posts have only made me a stronger, more confident person.

All in all my response to this hate is that you can say whatever you want to but I'll turn it into a positive and make it help me in the end.

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