Blessings, affirmations, grace, and reflection

Dear Self, You can't save the world. Love, Me

When did it become "fun" to tear down others?  Or has it always been? Nowadays if someone doesn't criticize something it was boring. We have become so critical of everything! People's weight, hair style, marriage choice, shoes, vocal ability, you name it we can tear into it. Perhaps I am romanticizing, but it seems back in the day we glorified stars and celebrities. They could do no wrong. They would be on stage loaded out of their minds, and we still loved them. Now, let them crack a note and we are all over them like peanut butter on Wonder Bread. Chaka Khan was a mess, but we loved her messy little self. Yet, Jennifer Hudson can do no right. Whether she is a size 3 or a size 33 they will always criticize her for something, anything, everything. Why? She was a girl from the Southside of Chicago with a dream. She had an opportunity. She made the best of that opportunity. Why do we insist on splashing her with haterade every chance we get? She is doing all of the th...