About The Social Contract by SerenAletheia, journal
About The Social Contract
I just read, with sadness, the last journal of someone I considered a friend here. I will miss her and her art. And I think her leaving was preventable, but we all have to get our priorities straight.
She got caught up in the social contract: the faving and commenting and thank yous and notifications. And she honestly tried to keep up. Soon her participation here became more about other people than her, and she stopped doing art. Then the people she was trying to be nice to started trolling her, because they didn't care about her other than how she could boost their pageviews. She got hurt and frustrated, and stress and life got bad and she