TIKTOK is not always about cheesy short videos or silly pranks or ridiculous human behaviors caught on camera.
If you do it right, scrolling on TikTok may serve as your source of mental health resilience.
When you have no one to lighten up your day, TikTok might do the trick.
Go to Lawrence Choto’s TikTok feed (@chotosocial) and you can there find videos of him handing a lot of strangers motivational and heart-warming notes that someone might need to lift their mood after a bad day at work, home, or school.
I like that Choto himself handwrote all of the notes on colorful pieces of paper to strangers in public setting. So every note seems very personal and it doesn’t scare people out because it’s just notes anyway.
Some followers may shed tears after every video just because they find the messages on these notes touching to their hearts.
What is even better is when we wait for everyone’s reaction to the message inside those notes.
Some may be laughing, or crying deep inside, or just smiling, or just reading and keeping the note in their pocket or backpack.
Some messages hit hard to the core of our being.
Some just miss but that’s okay because not everyone is in the right mood to accept the messages in those notes.
But in fact those messages are so amazingly universal, does it not only hit the receiver but also the heart of every follower or viewer on TikTok.
Some commenters admit they cried after watching the TikTok videos and easily can relate to the emotions evoked by the messages.
They can also let out the emotions so long buried deep down inside.
My favorite is shown below.
It’s infectious to see people happy and optimistic so you start adopt those feelings as well.
And this is what we increasingly need after what we have witnessed in Palestine.
The humanity still offers some hope because some people are still filled with love. (*/)
