Cancer treatments. Pet deaths. Children’s serious illnesses. Car accidents. Homelessness. Have I left any plagues out?

All parts of modern life, yes.

But does it have to be on my LinkedIn feed in such excruciating detail as I have read recently on LinkedIn?

I am aware of the need to express oneself, but I am not sure here is the place.

I am gratified to see comments from others, and supportive suggestions, but I am just not reading them. I move past, quickly.

Wait! I am not an unfeeling ogre, if you do not know me personally.

And yes, I comment from my personal lens. A lot, but always trying to help you with a lesson to implement in the cross between your personal and business life on a rainy day. And sunny ones. Because LinkedIn has become that intersection, and I support that, but please give more. Show the story’s upside. If there is none, to the  other topics mentioned above  as “over-the-top”– I consider them ill-placed on LinkedIn, so they’re not for me.

I guess you could say if you don’t want to read them, then don’t. But these grueling narratives are proliferating and I am sure the thousands of comments and emojis are the incentive to attract empathetic support.

I recognize our search for hope and bright light of redemption. But I’ll encourage you to relate past challenges to present lessons learned, as your pay-it-forward to others for their dark times. Towards their future.

Past-present-future time continuum.

Make it like the ancient Aesop’s Fables, still relevant thousands of years later, and they always will be, with a moral to your story that we can use, learn, and repeat. Please.