I have a Threads account to write short posts from time to time.
Since there are so many different people, proportionally, there are also a lot of strange people – people who are extremely sarcastic or mocking, who shoot curse words out of nowhere, who misunderstand the posts and unload undeserved criticism, who are simply rude, and who have just a very aggressive attitude toward the world and speak loudly about it.
Although I rarely block people (in the spirit of free speech), sometimes it’s just necessary for me to remove some people who are rude either to me or to others, or whose overall energy simply makes me uncomfortable. If I block someone, that person’s posts don’t show up on my feed, and they can’t access my posts either.
God, how convenient it is.
Sometimes, I think to myself – ‘How great would it be if I could just block someone with a snap of my fingers in the real world?’ Those people who are rude, weird, or possibly dangerous. In my world, there are people whom I would happily block, yet I still need to deal with them since I don’t have that option. Well, what can I do? I can’t block someone the way I do online.
Unlike the easy-peasy online world, I can’t change everything in this offline world. Hence, I either avoid people I would block, or hone my skills in dealing with those people.
After all, it is my choice to see everything as an opportunity for learning and growth.