You Don't Have To Be An Emotional Slave To Toxic People
(Source: The Christian Science Monitor) When I started writing about campus politics, I thought my blog would be a good opportunity for me to share my beliefs and to improve my writing. Yet since my first publication, I have encountered abuse on social media on nearly a daily basis. People who do not like what I have to say will swear at me, mock me, degrade me, accuse me of ill motives, and more. However, no matter what other people choose to do, I, like anyone else, still have a decision to make. How am I going to let this affect me? Am I going to let it hurt my feelings and feel powerless before other people’s hurtful actions or am I going to choose do something else? This kind of stuff used to really bother me, but then I learned how to live free from other people's toxic influence. That is, I learned how to take back my own power that I gave to others. Now that I know how to do this, I don't feel the emotional fallout—the feelings of powerless and intimidation—...