It’s Not Hard to NOT Be a Jerk
Derek Hunter
When someone you disagree with politically dies, no matter the circumstances, should you be happy? That’s a rhetorical question; I don’t really care what your personal answer is. Everyone has weird thoughts that pop through their mind over which they have no control, most of which are fleeting and ignored. The problem occurs when those thoughts are followed by a “…and the world needs to know this” action. The world does not need to know your every thought, or even most of them.
It's hard not to laugh when you see someone in a “blooper” video do something stupid or fall on their face somehow. You might feel phantom pain from it, but it’s still funny. It’s funny, at least in part, because we’ve all been there – there isn’t anyone who hasn’t done something stupid or clumsy. I flipped a grocery cart one night, drunk, with only a gallon of milk and some other small thing in it I’ve forgotten. I wanted to coast down the aisle, so I ran and jumped on the back. There wasn’t enough weight in the cart to do that, and the whole thing flipped, catapulting the milk about 10 feet behind me, popping it and making a mess. I felt like an idiot. But only because I was.
It, thankfully, was not filmed and posted online. I also didn’t tweet about it because Twitter had yet to be invented. It was my own personal stupidity, shared only with whoever grabbed the mop to clean it up (who I apologized to).
Nowadays, every thought has to be shared, no matter how stupid, or else it didn’t happen in the minds of many.
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