April 9th - TROLL!

Grow or Die 002

Welcome to all the new subscribers. I want to send you all a message but I can’t work out how to do that on here yet - I’m very old remember 😂

Protecting my peace for my mental health & my family is super important to me at this stage of my sobriety and my life.

I also realize no one gets to have an easy ride in life. I think that’s may be the POINT of life honestly - hence the “grow or die” idea.

I NEVER grow through comfort. Shit had to get real uncomfy for me to change. Some people are like that I guess. Especially people who fcked up somewhat publicly 😂

But, for my sanity and sobriety

I have to use discernment in my daily life as a content creator.

I realize that trolling can be fun.

Today I had to block my first obvious substack troll (no constructive comment - bare-faced lying to try to de-rail this new community questioning my commitment to change with no basis for

doing so.

Mean and nasty (which,in itself, is something I’m very used to & I can usually take without any issues - thanks autism)

It’s fun to troll. I get it. I’ve trolled.

It’s people with empty lives that do it though (myself included a few months ago) I feel sorry for those people, genuinely I do. I will say, as an aside , that I’ve never left hate comments on soemone’s page though 😂

Busy people never comment hate on strangers content.

I can’t have that troll energy here in The Needed because…