Written by Rob Andersin shared Writtensinsproductions‘s post.
This past election has potentially and forever damaged relationships in the indie market. It was an ugly fall out and it became clear if you don’t side with me we can’t be friends mentality was born. If you don’t agree with me complete I will block you is not the right way. People BRAGGED about blocking and unfriending fellow creators, limiting opportunities for themselves. . Call me a pussy if you must but my eyes well at this fact that friendship come with the price of blindly following people. Some of the best friendships every in history have come from different sides. Having a friend who doesn’t see your POV and has their own POV give you opportunity to see the world from through someone else’s eyes . Surrounding yourself with echos will only make you feel you are right EVEN when your wrong and limit your view of the world.
ENOUGH! It is time to heal and forgive. We all are passionate but we need to forgive and begin to listen to other people and at VERY least respect their opinions. I had someone ask me just today if I could help a person with a kickstarter and I had to say no. Not cause I hold a grudge but they told me to not comment on their posts and not to tag them. I am a fan of their work and thought our friendship mattered to them, sadly it didn’t. I saw another person I call a friend and who I still call a friend get really nasty with me over a comment. My comment wasn’t anything but an opinion on why the election went they way it did. They asked me to explain and when I did they read a single sentence and threw a childish fit saying I can’t read anymore than a sentence cause I don’t agree. They where unwilling to listen to someone else Point of View even someone they called a Friend. What is really sad is he posted a clip of Obama urging people to stop closing their minds and begin to listen to other people opinions.
We are turning on each other yet none of us make polices,
none of us are an elected official,
none of us our political analyst,
NONE OF US ARE BETTER OR RIGHTER THAN THE OTHER.
We are CREATORS our JOB is to CREATE! We can’t do that while treating each other like shit. We need to respect other people opinions, and if you can’t handle a conversation and require people to agree with you or else stop commenting and posting on social media, anything that had has anything to do with something you did not create or has nothing to do about your looking for something you need to create. This NEEDS TO END NOW. FRIENDSHIP is not about blind followers that is fascism. Friends are friends cause they are willing to listen and talk to you all while respecting you as a human even when they do not agree. Its time to forgive and move past this.
As a step forward to anyone who unfriended me or blocked me or thinks I am mad at them over anything I forgive and welcome you back. My list has no one blocked on it and while I only lost 6 some of you lost so many friendships for bad reasons. Just forgive each other and lets get back to something really important, lets get back to creating comics