I'm not sure where they start, but I can only speak for myself. I know that when I watch things on tv that are sad, contentious or hateful, it disturbs me. It starts very tiny and half the time I don't even realize it's there until it snowballs. I begin waking up with a sort of cloud over my being.
So, on facebook I decided that anything, anything at all, that causes a sort of sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, will be hidden. Clicking that one little button is such a fantastic choice. It's like ...Pooof....gone. Seen no more!
Facebook is an interesting medium.
When I first joined, I was used to myspace where I could be somewhat anonymous. I probably was still in the myspace frame of mind, but I sort of put it all out there; bore my soul to the artificial world of pseudo relationships. Just like everyone else, I connected with new friends and reconnected with old ones. It was sort of like Junior High all over again..The more friends I had, the more popular I felt.
That is until, I started getting friend requests from people I barely knew. However, it was the old friends that I valued. I couldn't wait to reconnect and reconnect I did. I have to say, when I did, I had no idea how far apart our lives had taken some of us.
With me, what you see is what you get. For the most part anyway. So it isn't a secret that I have changed. My beliefs have progressed and my philosophy has grown to adulthood. Basically, I try my best to move towards love in my thoughts, actions and words. But I started slipping in this fraudulent world of the internet. Especially around the time of the elections. The hateful things I would read, inevitably I was sucked in and at times, turned in to a closed minded hater. I tried not to; God knows I tried.
I said all that to say this: I had to make some difficult decisions. And no, I'm not being dramatic, these 'friendships' went way back. But I had to delete them for my own sanity.
I'm sure they are probably happy I'm the one that did the deleting...It's hard to...well...to break up. I feel much lighter though.
I still love a a few of them very much, and others, I must say, I never really was that fond of them anyway. Sort of good riddance.
So, my intentions are to, yes, move towards love. That starts by thinking good thoughts as much as I possibly can.
So, here's to the weekend and here's to happy thoughts....xoxox
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