Likes And Dislikes

One of the arduous tasks ahead of my fifth grader self was to find a 'zero disliked' video in YouTube, as almost every  videos or songs I loved or I was madly in love with that had soared to popularity had dislikes and hate comments that made you curse Steve Chen,Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley for ever having founded the platform .I was sure Nehru or Gandhi's videos or related videos would be the solution, as they were our prominent nation builders. How can anyone hate them?

IIT,AIIMS,IIM,ISRO- Every institute had Nehru's signature -bold or light.And Gandhi was a globally revered figure!

I got to know I was badly mistaken-more so today with equal or larger amount of seething hate pouring towards them with myriad hues of religion and politics adorning reasons.

My pursuit went on and it still goes on for the final destination but nothing of immense popularity struck me.

I was devastated(and still am):If fame meant respect and service meant love,what was this?

That was my introduction to haters:

The growing community whose goal in life is to pull others down and take joy in people's sorrow-simply in spreading hate and do nothing worthwhile themselves to the planet and people.

My greatest excuse to myself to not dream big was that "popularity brings hate".

And I still don't often dare to dream that big ,I cling onto my fears but that's not because it brings about hate but because the potential to step over the hate to the top to be loved by many and to create a difference is to be of superior quality. Everyone out there working for us and those whose names are familiar to us have paid a price to be there(positively famous).

I still read comments soaked in hate sowing just despair and mostly lies(in especially anything related to religion or politics),go over them,ponder and wonder how human beings could hide so much malice behind all the glitter,how borders are so pronounced with thorns sticking out of them for anyone who wants to see the other side let alone cross over it.

It's impossible for me to stop perceiving and pursuing negativity which I stupidly guess is an addiction for human beings. To see what's the worst especially when your fingers hover around the window to it:temptations.But it's always possible to oversee it by appreciating the positives we come across;be it a thumbs up emoticon,a word of appraisal and support or merely showing their love!

For everyone who would prefer to stay anonymous in everything they'll ever do and have ever done, fearing the failures and criticisms,the epiphany that every YouTube video that trended had comments asking the makers to stop doing their stuff and tons of dislikes, is a cue to wishful thinking to start preparing lemonades out of the lemons thrown.