Thread by @ToluComms

I have stood up to my family, insisting that a particular thing was my choice; written to CEOs demanding my due; left a job cos I felt someone else was being underpaid.

I don't back down.

So when I say I am strong willed, it's not a joke.

Yet, social media messed with my head.

I would read posts on Facebook then, and start to think and act differently.

Because many people were basically posting about their fantasies, not reality.

Then I sat back and did a self-evaluation. Blocked all the rubbish from my TL, and told myself: speak up ABOUT REALITY.

There is so much delusion online, that you honestly won't know how or why you are acting the way you do.

It's not one thing. It's an accumulation and internalisation of many small things.

Many people don't share about how life IS, they share about how life SHOULD BE.

If you follow how life should be, you will be severely disappointed and traumatised, I tell you.

Understand reality, and device ways to make it work for you.

That's why, no matter how many trolls perch on my TL when I talk about life as a career woman, I won't back down.

Stop deceiving people.

Each time you lie or exaggerate about an occurrence, you set up a standard for someone else who begins to expect that life really should be that way.

Stop being gullible.

Many tweet about the way they wish things were, not is.