*I wrote this post four years ago, and i look back at how this perspective shifted everything in my life in a positive way*
One thing I have learned is this: if you are happy, there will always be someone who resents you for it. Day job has a lot of useless drama that serves no purpose. Toxic situations can happen anywhere.
This post will focus on turning something negative into a positive. In our everyday lives, there will be situations and people that will test us. We can choose to let it affect us, or we can use it creatively to try to move past it. Haters gonna hate. Crush them up and use them in your writing. Try to explain or highlight their malicious nature.
Lately I have been re watching A LOT of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and I just finished the season with Jinx’s Monsoon. In that season she was bullied, but held her head up despite the jealousy thrown at her. Frequently when she didn’t know they were recording she would recite to herself under her breath, ‘water off a duck’s back.’
Don’t let every drop of hate seep into you, let it roll off your feathers. They want you shaken. They want you second guessing yourself. They want to know they got into your head. They want to see you stumble because they aren’t brave enough to do what you do.
Writing gives us the opportunity to adapt and overcome.
Author R.A. Gasparac 
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