Haters Gonna Hate

I kind of love this picture. It's got rainbows. It's got unicorns. It's got awesome! It's also a perfect follow-up to my last post. But mostly I wrote this post so I could use this picture. Because it's my blog and I make the rules around here, so there...

Anyway, after I finally climbed out of my blanket fort over the weekend, I realized how angry I was. Angry that assholes exist and seem intent on causing as much damage as possible without actually giving a crap. But more angry at myself - for letting an asshole win. I hadn't even realized it until I was urging a friend to ignore someone who was being disrespectful and ugly to her and encouraged her not to give people like that any headspace.

Yeah, I know. Hypocrite much? Trust me, I'd have kicked my own ass if I were flexible enough to make it happen. But I'm fat and out of shape, so I frowned disapprovingly at myself instead. It takes eleven muscles to frown, so I'm going to go ahead and call that my exercise for the day too.

Haters gonna hate. They will. But that's their problem. Other people's inability to be respectful and compassionate human beings isn't my fault and it's not my problem unless I make it my problem. I should probably stop doing that. You know, to salvage what's left of my sanity. And because it doesn't matter what you do - there always going to be someone judging. So who gives a shit? Be yourself. Be the person YOU were meant to be. To hell with everyone else. The people who love you will support you. The other people don't matter.

I mean, I'd imagine it's easy to be jealous of my fucked-upness and my mad writing skills... (I can't even type any of that with a straight face). Really, I don't have anything especially impressive to offer on any level, which is why I can't figure out why anyone would even bother mustering up the energy to be spiteful and ugly. But the truth is some people don't need a reason to be spiteful and ugly. It's just that spiteful and ugly happen to be what they are really great at. Not my fault and not going to be my problem anymore either.

I was listening to some music this morning on my drive into work and this song came on. Love it.