Every few months I feel the need to take a social media break. I don't. Not really. I might cut back; and over the last year I have paid a little less attention to the loud, obnoxious, in-your-face, stream of information that the internet throws at you. But sometimes it's still all too much.Social media makes it way too easy to cut someone down. Social media makes it way too easy to judge others.Yep, I judge people. Guess what? So do you. We all judge others. This seems to be a very common bad habit of the human race.And social media makes bad habits too easy to give into.I am tired of negativity. I am tired of people who feel the need to diminish someone else's triumphant proclamation of accomplishment by either one-upping them, or dismissing the accomplishment all together, as not a big deal.If you ran a kilometre, and are proud of it. BE PROUD.If you left your house to do an errand, and had to deal with people (socialize! gah!), and you needed to rest when you got home? Be PROUD (and rest!)Did you finish a book? Are you not an avid reader? Was it a struggle to get through but you wanted to finish it? BE PROUD.Anything that is difficult for you, and you manage to accomplish, is worth celebrating. Just because something might be easy-peasy to someone else, doesn't make it less of a big deal to you. Small, simple things that may or may not feel small and simple, can make a huge splash.So you share these accomplishments, and someone always has to come around and stomp all over your sprouts. Others might think nothing of bursting through the soil to grow and reach for the sunlight, but sometimes you need a little more encouragement to dig through that dirt. And dirt can be heavy.I am tired of people who can't comprehend why something they think is simple and obviously a no-brainer might not be simple to someone else. Telling me to "just get up earlier" when I mention how awful I am with mornings, isn't helping me. I can't. I am just not a good morning person (rather, a good just waking up person). My brain takes way too long to boot up in the mornings. I joke about it being an accomplishment if I can remember to put on pants before I leave the house, but my reality isn't too far off that path. I am not a morning person. I never have been, and I doubt I ever will be.Doing anything that makes a person step out of their comfort zone is an accomplishment. Leaving the house to get groceries isn't easy for everyone. And yet so many people judge others for finding something difficult they think nothing of.There are many things I do in my life that are hard for me. I struggle with a lot of things that I don't tell anyone about. Much of it is internal, and every so often I feel so proud of what I might have just managed to do that I want to shout it to the world - so I do. Others do to. But not everyone gets it. It's not a cry for attention. It's not fishing for compliments. (Sure, those people are out there, but it's not everyone.) Sometimes you just need to tell the world you did something that you didn't think you could do. Putting it out there in the universe is a way of proving that you did it.And you know what? You don't have to care about others. You don't have to congratulate me because I made it out of the house WEARING PANTS in the morning. You can just IGNORE what I wrote and move on with your life. You don't need to say "Ha! I ALWAYS wear pants. It's EASY!" you don't have to say "That's stupid, it's not a huge deal to leave the house with pants on." You can say "Yay! Cat! I am glad your brain was functioning this morning!" you can just keep scrolling.You do not have to care one whit about my pants. Just know I feel pretty darn pleased with myself when I accomplish this small feat every day. (I need to work on not leaving the house in my slippers though. But I focus on the more important body coverage first.)Don't judge someone because they find something difficult you think is easy. You're not right just because you can do it and someone else can't. You're also not better than the person who thinks what you find easy is hard. It's likely that something you think difficult is as easy as breathing to that person.Be proud of what you accomplish, however small. Be bold in your pride over those accomplishments. Ignore those who think you've got nothing to be proud of because they feel they are better than you because what you've done is easy for them.We each have our own struggles. We fight our own personal demons. Struggle, fight, overcome. Be proud of yourself. And remember the next time someone writes a post about something they are proud of accomplishing that  you think is easy - it's not easy for everyone. So just shut up with your judgey comments. Keep scrolling. If you can't say something nice... you know the rest.