Thanks Jake. While I did read Lilith’s hurtful comment to my post, I paid it no mind. How bold of them to point out how awful I am when I have written several pieces illustrating many of those shortcomings. My writings resonate with people because I speak truth to my current circumstances, even when that truth is subject to temporal perspective and are painfully blunt.

For my existence to hold so much station within their mind such that they deem it mandatory to berate me is quite telling. I have the ability to report and hide their comment(s), but instead I leave them for a very specific reason; it helps the world see exactly who they are.

I opt not to pump such focused hatred into the world because I firmly believe you get what you give. So, if being willfully cruel to those who have done no harm to them is somehow mentally uplifting, then that’s their damage. I will not assuage them for having an opinion, even if it’s narrow minded and bigoted.

They can (or may) continue to deny my humanity through further dehumanizing talk, but I will spend no time fixating on their words because it seems obvious that harming others is their mandate. There’s already millions of other sociopaths on the internet doing this very thing; and as the saying goes — “Don’t feed the trolls.”

I do not lay awake at night conjuring responses intended to harm people that I do not know, and will never meet; they apparently do. Sadly, every scathing judgemental response they offer is a pockmark against their own humanity. If that is what they desire, than I refuse to delete their hate, instead I leave it such that their darkness can be seen by the light.

I’m grateful for your defense of me, but it would be my hope that you leave them alone. The world is not blind to hate, and they will invite their own judgement from those they haven’t even targeted — an apt reward for unjust actions. Even Jesus warned his people about targeting the speck in another’s eye whilst denying the plank in one’s own. Little do they realize (or care) that the very act of calling out specks is the creation of their own plank.