We Will Never Learn

The reason I really dislike the famous #bekind. - Poems from Eden

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We see it way too often now, celebrities who we once loved, spiral down the self-harm rabbit hole of drink and drugs due to their beloved fans turning against them. We are quick to share all the negative posts with lies and hate, laughing at their misfortunes and judging them for every move they make. Then once something terrible and tragic happens, we all jump on the #bekind bandwagon.

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However, this doesn’t only happen to celebrities, we, as a society, are very quick to be cruel to our peers while also posting on social media that we should #bekind. I’ve had a woman in my job try and sabotage my career and reputation, still on her socials, she was writing about supporting others’ mental health “#bekind.” It made me hate the whole hypocritical sense of the good message. As a society we can share this damned hashtag for the world to see, yet continue to treat people with disrespect and cruelty no one deserves. A few years ago I wrote a poem titled #bekind, which will feature in my upcoming book called You Are Not Alone.

In recent days we have lost another troubled soul to this horrific conditioning. The “let’s build them up and then tear them down” power of social media. The messages start flooding around, saying how social media was so cruel to him, just like the souls lost before him. Yet we will never learn, tomorrow we will once again share the post of a different celebrity who has made one human mistake, condemning them. 

So I released my emotions in a way I know how. Poetry. I hope you enjoy.

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We Will Never Learn

We will never learn to just #bekind
We ruin reputations and ruin their minds
We gossip and thrive on scandalous news
We are quick to hate and quick to abuse
We talk about people we never have met
We judge them for rumours media spread

Then we cry when we see they took their own life
We grieve for their greatness and display our own strife
We are quick to turn loving after they’re gone
And we strive to remember saying they will live on
Yet we continue to bully, follow the media blind
We will never learn to just #bekind

Take care 

Tori x

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Victoria Eden is still struggling to write a biography for herself. She is a mother of two children but doesn’t want that fact to define who she is. She wants to write that she is a poet and writer but worries that she is still not good enough at either to put that. So, I guess she is a woman who is still trying to find herself. She explores her own identity through writing, painting, music and poetry. She wants to help and inspire others like she has been helped and inspired. She wants to add to the beauty in the world so it’s a little bit better for her children. Most of all she wants to find herself, then she’s not lost for words when writing a biography.
She is working hard on self-publishing her first poetry collection titled ‘You Are Not Alone’. It’s a journey through her postpartum depression. She has been working hard on finding herself over the last two years and working closely with Shape Wellbeing. 

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