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Ever started scrolling and landed on a red hot post with the comments section breathing all sorts of hellfire and injustice? 🙋‍♀️ In our extremely polarising world with extreme ends of opinion and keyboard warriors making it a fulltime job to engage in debates with strangers, I find it very unlikely that you haven’t scrolled past something like this before. Time to become antihate!

We are losing our humanity in rage-filled battles of opinion. The whole world is fighting against itself. Brother against brother. Sister against sister. What we are becoming is a scary vision of pride and hatred masked as truth.

We HAVE to learn how to have bloody hard conversations without the hate, name calling and to justify our righteous opinion, we're not helping anyone.

Why do we so easily create moulds of perfection to fit into, when all it is is an illusion to distract you from enjoying the present. I have very quickly come to realise that no one else is holding me up to this standard that I set myself and to be perfectly honest, no one cares that I’m not reaching that standard! Because everyone has their own journey to undertake and everyone has their own trials and struggles that keep them busy—why take up more brainspace worrying about whether someone else is perfect?

We made it. We may be bruised, battered and have the scars to prove it, but we all made it! 2020 was a year that no one saw coming and that no one could prepare for. It brought out the absolute worst in people, but it also brought out the best.

With a new year comes new year's resolutions, but this year I am putting aside your typical resolutions and trading them in for character challenges. I invite you to come on the journey with me and perhaps even add these to your own list. When our world becomes darker with pride, greed and hate, let us be those that to display love, hope and empathy.

We have officially reached our second End of Financial Year and we couldn't be more proud of how far we've come!  

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