I have debated getting off Facebook for a good number of months if not longer but never did, for fear of losing a platform of connection and being out of touch.
Well here we are in the middle of COVID-19 Lockdown and as of a week or so ago I could no longer stomach Facebook. At first, it was an overwhelm of "you should do this to *FILL IN THE BLANK* during COVID. It was too much information and some perhaps tone-deaf if not shaming or fear-inducing. No thank you!
Then it was because it brought me anger and impatience for my fellow human beings for turning everything about COVID into a political stance. Let me back up, political or not, the sentiment that if you don't agree with my amazing after-the-fact hindsight opinions about what should and shouldn't have happened then you are obviously a dumb-ass. *puke emoji*
Finally, today in the once every few days I hop on, it turned into an almost comical copy of the tabloids you find at the grocery store register.
How was I fooled for so long?
I don't want to lose faith in humanity. I want to be able to meet someone and not have any preconceived notions (outside what kind of bumper stickers they roll up with on their car). I don't want to witness the worst in everyone so freely. I don't want to waste time on what feels like temporary trash for cheap highs or lows.
Yesterday I was still puzzling over how to share the good and avoid the bad... duh! I blogged before I ever social-media'd
So here I am!
I am back to share the things that make me happy and give me energy and perhaps to rant occasionally but not through hastily typed out reactions to the million pin-balling ideas that is Facebook.
Oh and this is what I am looking like these days...
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