When you find yourself spending too much time online and it starts messing with yourself, there's an urban sayings " Touch Grass" which basically mean you need to step outside for a moment. It includes leaving the internet that bothers you, going out, and maybe coming back in a calmer state. The internet is often successful in making us work up, worrying about the people we never met, having people insulting us just because a fraction that we choose to share online, or we become jealous with carefully picked reels that people show, even just the news that are worrying that may/may not happen. There are dozens more possibilities and somehow we care about it or have our ego hurt because of their mean words online or being in fear that leads us to act irrationally.

As someone like me who's been on the internet for basically all my life and works online, I certainly ever received insult and complain despite from my understanding and the experts I consult to, it wasn't my fault. But those were enough to break my spirit until I learned better to deal with that. When people say mean things, I just log out and come back later. It certainly crushed my spirit but I can also make the same remarks to them. I just choose not to.

I remember one time when I was 18, I quit writing for a few months just because someone said my work was awful. Truth be told, I could have seen it as a way to improve and ignore the mean comments. And only now, I realized how to approach life that way and that we can never please everyone around us no matter how much we try. So, it's better to live up to our own terms and make ourselves proud and satisfied.

In my opinion, we should also touch grass when we start feeling like our life is a massive failure just because someone else seems to have it better. I was always comparing myself to others that I wasn't smart enough, that I wasn't this, that and many other things. Once I went outside and distanced myself from the noise, I realized that I was smart enough, I live a better life but obviously, I was comparing myself to 6 figures techpreneur in the developed countries. They have more access to things than me and many other factors that are incomparable. But the fact that I did well even on numbers in my late teens and early 20's, I think I did fine. It's just being on the internet, the playing field is the globe and though maybe we are the 1% in our small world, we aren't, when we compare ourselves to the globe. There's also saying by Theodore Roosevelt “Comparison is the thief of joy.” That saying is certainly a remainder too whenever we find ourselves comparing with whoever that is with unrealistic standard.

It's the same thing with Hive. If you start comparing yourself, spotted people saying mean things to you, got a downvote and doesn't like it, found people saying ridiculous things, well.. Touch Grass and come back later when you feel like it.

I would say, nowadays I am pretty immune and that I've been trying to go outside more and more. I am already pretty disconnected despite being old Gen Z and all that. I suppose, it's a price to pay for my sanity and a piece of mind.

Happy Monday and good luck for the rest of the week!

	𝘔𝘢𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘫𝘢. 𝘈 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦, 𝘤𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘱𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬. 𝘈 𝘳𝘦-𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥.