Write Your Story of Overcoming

Social media has become a stage for who can cry the loudest.

A contest for who has it the worst.

Who’s the biggest victim…

Who can milk the most sympathy from a crowd of strangers who are barely listening anyway…

It’s pathetic.

Post after post of people begging for attention under the disguise of “being vulnerable.”

Guess what?

Everyone has hard days.

Everyone’s been knocked down.

Everyone’s had shit happen to them they didn’t deserve.

Your pain isn’t special.

Your struggle isn’t unique.

Your sad story doesn’t make you interesting.

It makes you common.

You’re not a hero for surviving normal human experiences.

You got hurt?

So has everyone.

You failed?

So has everyone.

You’re tired, frustrated, broken?

Join the fucking club.

That doesn’t make you different.

That makes you human.

What makes you different is what you do about it…

Losers compete over who has it the worst.

They bond over shared struggle but never fucking move past it.

They wear their wounds like name tags and wonder why no one respects them.

Winners don’t do that.

Winners don’t sit around comparing trauma.

They don’t beg for likes over hard times.

They fight.

They build.

They transform.

They take the pain and turn it into pressure that fuels the next chapter.

Because they know…

The only story anyone cares to hear is the one where you overcome.

So quit posting about how hard it is.

It’s hard for everyone.

It’s called life.

Take the hit.

Deal with it.

Leverage it for the lesson.

Win with it.

…and if you really want to inspire someone…

Don’t cry about your situation...

Conquer it.

…and tell them how you did it.

#100to0