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Lately, I have been pondering how to keep a healthy mental balance in a world that seems filled with violence and cruelty of the worst kind. The answer for me turned out to be rather simple. I have to look for, and be able to see and appreciate all the beauty and kindness there also is in this world. This is especially true for me when it comes to my wandering around on the net. Unfortunately the world wide web is filled with people whose only ambition in life seems to be making life as miserable as possible for others. Trolls, are what this article I read called a certain group of these people. And trolls is a perfect description for this group of sad souls.

I’m choosing to stay away from the trolls of the net, read the important news whether it’s good or bad, and see if there is any way I can make even a tiny bit of positive difference concerning some of the bad news. I also spend a portion of each day finding beauty and kindness in the physical world around me, as well as the online world when I’m wandering around in it. Both of these worlds are filled an abundance of beauty, grace, charm, and human kindness.

Am I sounding like a bit of a Pollyanna here? Probably. But, in my humble opinion, the world needs as many Pollyanna type people in it as possible right now. I suppose in a way I’m not being completely like the young girl who actively confronts the bitterness in the town she is forced to go and live in with her aunt. I am instead choosing to avoid the places on the net that are heavily infested with trolls. However, in my own peculiar way I am opposing the effects of what they do by finding as much humor, beauty and human kindness as I can in the physical and online world, then sharing that humor, beauty and human kindness with as many other people as I can through my Musings From The Bottle website, as well as my Stumble Upon pages.

Sharing ourselves with each other is what helps keep the milk of human kindness flowing. I refuse to let the trolls and other nefarious people on the net take that ability to share completely away from me with their cruel games. I’ve been sharing bits and pieces of my life, and myself for a long time now. I started doing that when I began writing for the local papers. When the jawbone of the moral majority rose up and smote me for sharing some of my life in a way they didn’t like, I turned to the world wide web to continue with that sharing. And as long as my fingers are capable of typing the thoughts that run through my brain, I will continue that sharing. I will not “get over myself” to the point I can sit back and ignore cruelty of the worst kind going on around me because if I do that, then I have become as cold hearted and callous as the people instigating that cruelty.

The one thing that I realized from reading that article about trolls is that they are even more sensitive and susceptible to negative comments than the people they think they are superior too. Proof of this lays within the fact that those who are brave enough to speak out against them, are often hit hardest by them. While they tell the rest of the human race to “get over ourselves” and learn to live with life being filled with their kind of cruelty, they can’t “get over themselves” enough to follow their own advice. Which just goes to prove that trolls are even bigger hypocrites than the people they feel so superior to.

Am I taking a chance on becoming a target of the trolls by saying what I have? Maybe so. But, if I am targeted then it will only prove that my words are golden, and all their words concerning “getting over ourselves” are nothing but lead based hypocrisy. After all, if they can’t take some of the same heat from one little old blonde lady that they dish out to others without striking back, then how can they really be so superior to the people they deem weak? And I if I am targeted, then I guess as much I do not want to score any points in their vicious games, it will be me who truly scores the lulz, in this instance.