I could write about the election or the video game related court case that is before the Supreme Court, but I thought I would go in a different direction.
Demi Lovato.
Now, you all know I am not a huge Disney guy, and I don't follow the lives of any of their famous young stars, so when I read the full statement of what was actually going on... well, I totally understand why she left that tour and sought therapy.
I am thinking back to when I was 17 or 18, and just imagining having a relationship with someone, having it go sour and then having to continue to work with them in a very public setting in a professional way, and while doing so, having to observe that person get over me and move on with someone else.
That would be bad enough. But then there was all the other pressure she was getting from her other professional commitments too, the endless promotions and filming and so many other things that were heaped upon her in so short a time.
If it was me, I would have broken down so much sooner than she did. Stress and emotional turmoil together is a deadly cocktail, and in her position, where she was always in the public eye and in a professional setting she had to be perfect... it is totally understandable that something had to give.
Thinking about this incident has made me think about some of the snap judgments I have made about other individuals in the past and made me perhaps see that I was entirely too hard on them, and I likely owe a few of them an apology.
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