04/26/2024
Here are facts you should keep close to your heart when you desire to become a public social media figure.
1. Thousands of people commit suc!de because of cyber bullying every year across the world. This includes celebrities and innocent teens. You will be mercilessly attacked by all manner of people.
2. At least 20% of people who follow you are silently watching, waiting, and wishing that you get into a problem that will disgrace you so that they will beat their chest with a smile and say “I said it.”
3. You will get all kinds of messages. Some will come to give you unsolicited advice, some will send you foolish harmless messages, many will come to beg for one thing or the other and when you are unable to attend to them all, some will become bitter and call you arrogant, stingy, and use very mean words against you and your family.
4. Lots of your followers are perfectionists. They are there to find every little fault, every little misstep, every misplaced punctuation. They will judge even the color of your clothes and how you should have done what they themselves never attempted to do.
5. You will lose your peace, you will constantly be pressured to live up to expectations. This is why some people wake up one day and delete their social media handles.
So, until you are ready to face all of these things with a thick skin, please, remain hidden. If I post some of the messages I receive on a daily, even you will be afraid for my life.
This street is a rough one especially for people like me who do not shy away from speaking our truths no matter who it hurts.
I have a lot of enemies. Some were made because of my posts against religious bandits. Some were made because of my inability to give financial assistance and then there are others who, if you ask them why they hate that me, they would tell you that he writes as if he knows everything. Lastly, there are others who now hate me because I have not been able to respond to all the thousands of messages in my inbox and provide solution to all their problems.
If these sort of things still bothers me, I would have long quit social media. But we have grown above that level. The love we give and receive is far superior to the hate and bitterness crawling in the hearts of a few victims of frustration. So, while you pray to grow, also pray for thick skin to absorb the hate that comes with love.
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Big john pelfor 🇨🇲