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June 20, 2011 Posted by Cobus in Blog

One for the Trolls.

For those (happily) not in the know: a "troll" is defined as somebody who says negative things with no purpose other than to upset or offend others. Needlessly to say, the human race inherently sucks (I'm including myself, here!) and if you give us anonymity and the ability to post a message or a comment behind a veil of disguise, things go downhill.. and fast.

This blog post is by no means a plea for sympathy or compliments, REALLY, I am blessed by enough (too many!) of those every single day. Even more than that, I am blessed with a heart that is epically at peace, and I want to go as far as to say that I'm trying my absolute human best to not even depend on compliments and validation: I never want to reduce what is very valuable, down to something dependant on what others think of it. With this I am obviously talking about one of the most valuable things I have ever come to own: the ability to make music.

(See, right about now: the troll in the room would have made a "joke" about how a drummer isn't really a musician, followed by a really obnoxious chuckle between him and his troll friends.. and then ended off with some all-round bad grammar and horrible breath. That's how trolls roll.)

I know we joke about it, I know we try and laugh it off.. but there's something very very disturbing to me about a human being who is so fundamentally and sincerely MEAN right down to the core of their little black hearts, that they completely lack the perspective and decency to see that they leave nothing but a mess of destruction and pain in their wake. I am a sensitive dude, so compliments floor me to no end.. support and compliments and wise words and smiles always overwhelm me, in the BEST way possible. But almost in the same intensity, mean and arrogant and hateful comments also make my heart race, in a bad way. I just need to relax for a few minutes, though.. then I'm fine. Right here I run the risk of sounding like an arrogant and self-righteous idiot, but after I've calmed down, and after I've absorbed it and deal with it: I feel so sorry for trolls. Aside from the fact that they're named after ugly and pathetic creatures who live underneath bridges.. there has to be something very very broken and insecure inside people who willfully CHOOSE to be mean. There isn't a speck or a molecule of inner peace in hateful comments.. and that so freakin sad to me. I might be angry for the first few seconds, upset for the first few minutes, but I'm just wholeheartedly SAD when I realise that you can't possibly post something intentionally hateful if you've got peace in your heart. If you're ok with who you are there is absolutely NO need EVER to bring other people down.

So this one is for the trolls.. stop worrying, it's OK. I know you're unhappy sometimes. I know you sometimes think "how the frick did a dude playing drum covers of easy peasy songs get almost 200,000 fans on Facebook?!" ..because I totally and regularly think that too. I know you might feel like life just hasn't lived up to what you expected. I'm exactly as much of a human being as you are, as is everybody else, so I don't even want to give you advice you might not want. All I'm saying, is that you don't have to hate anymore, you can totally take that off of your shoulders and throw it to the ground. Because we all know that hating never helped anybody ever, it's barely a short-term solution for a long-term problem. Anyways, hippy and cliché and cheesy lines aside, that's all I wanted you to know.

Now, let's see how many people hate on this because I didn't even MENTION the words "drum cover" until almost the very last paragraph..

Much love. Regardless of if you're a troll or not.
C
Chad Smith. AgainThe Los Angeles Secret
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