My Journey With Health And Fitness – Struggling To Deal With The Hatred

My apologies if you have been checking my blog this past week but I haven’t been posting. My husband arrived at the condo last Thursday and we have been pretty busy with our social network ever since. However, we have slowed down the past few days (this is actually our 3rd consecutive day alcohol free, we haven’t even had tequila) so I am getting other things accomplished.

As many of you know Monday was a federal election in Canada. I had to vote at an Elections Canada office before I left for the condo because I came here long before even the advance polls were happening. I made sure I voted because it is important to me to always vote. In the past I have done it many ways in various elections such as on election day, at advance polls even using a mail in ballot. But I have always voted.

But what is different this time is the hatred that is now occurring. It actually started before the election but after Monday many of those that didn’t get the outcome they wanted seem to be furious. It is unbelievable the hatred and vitriol that is blanketing social media. I am terrified to even congratulate the successful candidate in my area on X because I know I will be inundated with posts spewing hate and calling me all sorts of names. Even worse to me is words that our society decades ago had almost erased because of their offensive nature are now appearing everywhere. And trust me, they are not being used in a complimentary way.

I just have to ask, why? Why has it suddenly become ok to be this horrible often to people you don’t even know. Why, because I have a different political belief than some do they feel it is ok that they are abusive and trust me they are abusive. Even more frightening are the ones making blatant threats of violence to those that they don’t agree with. Why are we allowing this to happen? We have laws about hate speech and threats, why aren’t we doing something about these people.

I am hoping that my country pushes back against this behaviour. I vow that I will not accept this kind of hatred in my life. If you are someone in my life and you spew this kind of crap, well you no longer will be in my life in any way. And if you want to start something with me, I will turn my back to you and walk away. I think it will be the only way that I can survive this era of hatred.

Moreover, I’m going to focus on the Corgi groups that I follow. I have to say seeing those sweet, smiling faces is uplifting. I also think I should follow more kitten groups because a cute kitten will always make me happy.