No One is "Hating on You"

So tired of all of this negativity.

Allow me to let you all in on a little secret.

NO. ONE. CARES. And I don't mean that in a "no one cares about you" kind of way. I mean it in a "stop flattering yourself!" kind of way.

So when you post, "Stop hating on me because bla bla bla!" or "You're just jealous because I have bla bla bla," on social media, I want you all to know that NO ONE IS HATING ON YOU AND NO ONE IS JEALOUS.

No one wants to know your business. No one cares that "it's your right" to proclaim whatever. Not because it's not absolutely GREAT to be able to proclaim our rights. But because the more you post repetitive proclamations, the less people value them. You are not making a statement by posting a passive-agressive meme (or status, for that matter) on your Facebook every three minutes. You are posting a meme. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Also: for those of you who utterly live for revenge in the form of, "Oh, I'm pretty and successful now. What have you been up to?" STOP THAT, TOO. Ugh. It's so exhausting! Live your life! Wake up and do something that makes you happy. Try to make others happy. Stop centering in on yourself and your "miserable" past. Because, once again, NO ONE CARES. Oh, great, I ran into someone who used to be mean to me 10+ years ago and they gave me a compliment! Let me take that and spend every waking moment for the next month focusing on it! Yeah! That's a spectactular use of my time! NOT.

I hate to keep sounding like a hippie here with the, "Let's just love each other thing!" but seriously. Why can't we wake up, do what we do all day, be nice to people, try to do something decent and helpful, and then retreat to bed...?! I know that we're all human and we are all going to vent about our relationships with other humans. And we're all going to defend what we believe in. And we're all going to get defensive when we feel like someone is attacking us. In any form. But can we take it down a notch or two? Please?