Overly Invested

    I've been reading posts on social media about the Royal Family's family feud. It amazes me the amount of hate and anger in these posts directed at one side or the other. None of these people are directly involved. They don't work for the RF. They don't work for H & M. But they all seem to believe passionately in one or the other, so much so that they say mean, hurtful things.

    Where are they getting their information to react to? They are getting stories from the British tabloids and H's autobiography. I haven't read H's book or attempted to fact check any of the claims therein. But I know the British tabloids have a history of printing things that may not be true just to stir things up. They've been feeding off the RF for decades. So all these people on social media are so emotionally invested in stories that may not be true and waging verbal wars against others based on these stories. 

    As with every dust-up, the truth is somewhere in between the two sides of the feud. It's a shame all these people on social media saying mean and hurtful things can't take a step back and look at things with a little distance. They feel that hate deep within themselves, that anger. It must seep into every corner of their lives and comes through in their relationships with others. 

    It's a sad phenomenon. No individual wins. Social media posters are miserable. And the tabloids will get more internet traffic and sell more papers.