Thread:Big the cat 10/@comment-26153757-20180624045613/@comment-5035900-20180624074049

It's never about finding places to get away from it; it's about learning how to handle it better. It's also about understanding that such opinions will always exist, that we cannot do anything to change them, and that they are just how things are.

We live in an age where "If you're not A, then you're B, and that makes you my enemy", and especially after 2016, the world could seriously use so much less than it. People (especially on the internet) are so quick to judge others by even one thing about them and basically write them off. It's almost like people forget that disagreements and differing views and perspectives are actually completely okay things: it is then a matter of how those views and opinions are composed.

So believe me when I say I've been in that boat before (not the same issue, but a similar feeling) and it took me way too long to figure out that letting such things really get to me was only making me miserable. The road isn't easy and on one level, the progress there never truly reaches a finish line, but learning to accept and handle it is worth doing.