Change is difficult for people even if they are positive- Ryan Holliday

Even if the changes are positive, we can appreciate that they’ve been difficult for people. There is so much to navigate, to be sensitive to in this modern world of ours. People are expected to be tolerant of things that just a few years ago were considered totally out of the mainstream. Words and descriptors, even the names of countries (or the pronunciations of the names of cities) seem to change by the day (with painful consequences if you screw them up). There is an incredible amount of news thrown at us, and no small amount of technology required to access it (to say nothing of the brainpower to make sense of it all). We’re expected to give things to our children—to meet expectations emotionally, financially, timewise—that no generation before was asked to do.

This is not a controversial argument. The future is wonderful in many ways…but it’s been harder on some than others.

It’s hard to be a person in this world. Maybe not as much for you, but it definitely is for some people. So you must be patient. You must be understanding. You must not assume the worst. You must do what you can to help…and put up with the people that you can’t. Things are hard enough, you don’t need to make it harder…for them or for yourself If you do you end up in Facebook Jail

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