“…I’ve learned to be able to say some negative things, to say it’s OK to talk about something if you can help other people understand it” – Sammy Hagar
For me, it’s all about the rearview mirror.
My posts are usually positive because I learned early on in social media that when I posted something negative, I actually felt worse about whatever I was posting. While it might sound silly, I took some time to reflect on that because I saw many people always posting negative things about their lives. My belief was that they found relief in posting it, from getting sympathy for others, maybe prayers from others. They needed that support from the online community.
But for me, this felt all wrong. I found that if something negative happened, I preferred to wait until the situation had been resolved or had passed before I would talk about it online. And I realized that it was because I saw some sort of lesson I had learned in it and that’s what I was supposed to share.
If we can learn from something that we’ve been through, chances are, there is someone else out there who might benefit from our lesson. After all, isn’t life about helping each other?