The Bedtime Series | Season 1, Ep 14: Perspectives

Today I received my first official social media negativitiy. This surely means I am closer to my social media influencer dream. Someone on linkedin was not too happy with what I wrote in humour. But I genuinely enjoyed it. Or at least tried to. I did not feel any negativity or fear or trepidation after the initial moment of surprise. I was pleasantly surprised by myself at my reaction. Earlier when someone would say or do something negative towards me, I would feel really saddened. I’d take it personally, think that there was something wrong with me. Now I am fine with not being considered the nicest person in the room. (Yes, I might actually BE the nicest person in the room but I am fine with people thinking that I’m not).

The innate sense of wanting to please everyone, be there for everyone or do what’s good for everyone is waning now. I’d rather want to do more for myself, my sanity and my enjoyment. Thankfully, I also went through this journey in the last many years of knowing that OCHO (One can help others, others can help one — Thank you Joe Holder) and Ubuntu (Look up the meaning & African philosophy), mean something to me. Hence I know I won’t be hurtful, demeaning or anti-human beings. But I won’t be overtly considerate without much reason for beings beyond my core inner circle of friends and family.

Anyway, since I am still sick, I have to end this here. Also, I have a flight tomorrow morning and I am not sure if I’ll be let into the airport like this. So fingers crossed, wishing my body recovers enough to get me back to motherland, Delhi.

Cheers. And good night.