If anybody is capable of giving a positive perspective to the excess of sharing on social media, it’s John Cena. Cena truly lived up to his “Peacemaker” name when he was was a guest on the Drew Barrymore Show (a talk show which defines itself as “optimism TV”) to promote his new HBO Max Series which premiered on January 13. Before Cena’s guest spot ended, Barrymore asked if he had any parting advice for everyone watching and Cena took a moment to speak about using Twitter as a medium of self-growth.
“Everybody especially nowadays in the realm of social sharing and motivation everybody’s pretty quick to share quotes and things,” Cena said. “And I specifically use Twitter as a forum, almost like a journal of philosophy for me, but there’s a reason I publish those quotes instead of keeping them to myself and that’s to hold myself accountable because I want to be the person I tell people that I am. So when I put something out to the universe that instigates a conversation about philosophy or tackles an uncomfortable subject. It makes me accountable,” he said. Cena mentioned how even if his wife knows that he loves her he’ll still Tweet about it because it’s all about accountability. Social media can leave the opportunity for that, but most people have a tendency to not put their money where their mouth is.
“I think that’s important for me as a system of checks and balances for the rest of the world to keep me in line, but I just think nowadays we have the freedom of speech but we don’t have accountability a lot of times for that so people can tell people they’re a certain way and don’t necessarily have to walk that talk. And that’s hard business because you have to choose values, you have to choose beliefs. You have to define purpose and you have to be honest with yourself of who you are and all of that stuff is hard work. I guess my advice is that it’s not easy cause we all want people to see us as perfect folks. Just remember that everybody is flawed and we all make mistakes, but it’s hard. It’s hard work, but damn, it’s worth it.”
Transcription credit should go to @DominicDeAngelo of WrestleZone
You can check out the full clip of the conversation below:
