August #InkRipples #Giveaway – Things That Drag You Down
Hosted by Mary Waibel , Katie L. Carroll , and Kai Strand What drags you down? I'll tell you what drags me down. Mean people. People who need to belittle you to feel better about themselves. People who always have to correct you, almost as if they automatically take the counterpoint to feel superior in their opinion. Those who employ name calling, especially when they label everyone in a group by the name (ex: Blondes are dumb ß uh, I know several who aren’t & I know brunettes who are!) The current temperament online often falls into this description of mean people and it drags me down. The campaigning for the next election has only just begun and I’m worried that I’ll have to abandon the internet altogether long before we go to the polls. So if I suddenly disappear, you’ll know I just had enough. Maybe I’ll return again in 2017. Okay, so the funny thing is, though I decided that mean people drag me down, the very first thing I thought o...