Promote What You Love Instead of Bashing What You Hate

The following blog post was found on a website titled "The Voices of Youth", written in 2017 by teenager Yeshna Dindoyal. In these simple words I found a lot of wisdom, as well as food for thought, and I wanted to share with you.

April 1, 2017
Eshna Dindoyal
Promote What You Love Instead of Bashing What You Hate


"I feel like the internet is our second home, social media is now a way of life. I check my social media right after waking up and going to sleep at night. Social media is quite interesting, we get to post everything and anything, it's like holding a switch button in our hands. Just like a switch has two buttons: on and off, life on social media is more or less the same thing.

You have people who will try to throw negativity and people who will inspire with their positivity. Lame, loser, coward, useless. I’m sure some of us wake up to see these kinds of words flooding in our news feeds, insta posts or twitter mentions. But that is not to say that there are no people who will leave a nice comment on your post and make your day brighter.

Whether you call it cyberbullying or freedom of speech, social media is a public place and the atmosphere may be bitter, sour, sweet, sweet and sour or simply neutral. I love social media like every teenager and I believe that social media is a useful tool to change the world. Believe it or not, it is easier to belittle, judge, than to inspire, empower and educate. For instance, you are having a productive debate on poverty or climate change and someone starts calling you names and attacking you personally. I have no problem with people having a different point of view and I’m more than happy to engage myself in a productive and healthy debate, but an irrelevant personal attack is a whole different story."

See the complete article at it's original post here.

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