That Self-Righteous, Combative, S**t Stirring Troll on Social Media—May Be You.

I’m a people watcher.

I particularly enjoy finding out what makes them tick under pressure; how they respond to adversity, how they navigate conflict, how they manage dissension. Social media provides a perpetual smorgasbord of such public warfare.

Most of the time I consider myself a pretty perceptive soul, and though I can glean a great deal from other’s actions (as with most people), when it comes to looking in the mirror I suddenly find myself tragically farsighted; unable to clearly assess my own heart in the thick of the fight.

It’s funny how that works isn’t it; our inability to own anything distasteful or unpleasant as we attack and defend, stick and move, comment and rebut? In most of our daily timeline war narratives, we don’t ever cast ourselves as the villain. That’s a role we save exclusively for the other guy or the other side; for those we’ve determined are coming against us, preventing our progress, derailing our righteous movement in…