Every now and then I come across a cracked egg; When I say cracked egg I mean a broken person, someone fractured inside, simply not right and whom feels the need to tear others down in a bid to raise themselves up. In truth they are everywhere but in the main I'm able to avoid them which is a good thing for I have little tolerance for toxic people.
At those times when I have come across them in real life, and not managed to avoid them, I limit contact and have, at times, had to deal with them in other ways. This is reasonably easily done in the real world, but what happens when those cracked eggs hide behind a computer?
In this digital age it's easy for cracked eggs, lets call them online trolls, to vomit vitriol, hate, negativity and toxicity upon others with relative impunity; Most often this stems from jealousy and a lack of self-esteem and often they simply feel irrelevant. They cower behind their computers spewing-forth an ever-escalating stream of bile upon others, championing their just and righteous cause, or simply attacking others, often using words they'd never use in real life, or barely understand, with levels of passion and fervour they don't really feel in real life. The internet is full of them.
Here's the thing though, I find them so much easier to deal with than the cracked eggs I meet in person. I've heard people complain about online trolls being free to regurgitate their toxicity with impunity and to some degree that's true. However dealing with them is often quite simple; Ignore them and they will go away.
Sure they may hang around for a while, excreting their verbal faeces and disgorging their puss-like negativity like a hagfish gone wrong; However none of it has the ability to touch those it's aimed at, not through the computer anyway. It simply dribbles from their maw, runs down their chin and plops into their own lap to fester and stink, and for them to collect, swallow down once more and begin the process all over again.
FYI:
Hagfish: Can grow over four feet in length and have a skull but no spine. They ooze mucus from their pores all along their body and can produce 20 litres of the phlegmy substance in some kind of solitary bukkake session.
Yep, sounds a lot like most online trolls to me.
You see, these hagfishy online trolls may have the ability to cower behind their computers vomiting the phlegm and faeces now and then...But they have to spend twenty four hours a day, every day of their lives with themselves and there's the kicker...The very person they truly hate above all others is the very person they are stuck with their whole lives. They can't escape themselves, and whilst they could fix the cracks if they wanted to, often they choose not to because they just don't have the spine for it.
The internet and real world is full of human hagfish online trolls...Have you come across any? How has it made you feel and how have you dealt with it? Feel free to comment below. I'd even welcome the hagfish themselves should they choose to comment...It'll help hammer home my point I guess.
So, tell me about the cracked eggs you've come across and how you've handled them.
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