So, a couple people are asking why Jeremy and I are no longer on FB, the reasons are easy but actually erasing it was hard. Jeremy asked me a few weeks ago if FB added value to my life and as much as I wanted to say yes, the answer was no. I became obsessed with looking at pictures and status updates, often times of people I hardly knew. It occupied my time and my mind. I would often compare my life with others. Jeremy gets a great new job? someone on FB gets an even better one, my kids do something funny, someone on FB does something even funnier, I lose weight my friend loses more, you see where this is going? Complete discontentment, jealousy and a lot of passive aggressive post and comments just made FB not fun. This is an issue with me so before you comment and defend yourself for keeping FB realize that I think it's a great forum for communication but for me the communication took joy out of my life. I have a fabulous life, I really do and I want to relish in that joy and just disconnect to reconnect. The people I really care about seeing on FB, will contact me off of it. They will send me pictures and I will read their blogs. I want more face time, more coffee dates, more movie nights, more play dates, more phone calls, even more texts (I love me some texting!) I just want honest and real relationships. FB made it easy for me to be only a little involved in friends lives and my friends that I really care about I want to do better and be more than just a little involved, be present, be good, and be genuine. It's almost been a week and you know what? my house has never been cleaner, laundry is totally caught up, dinners are not burned, I'm baking more, I am talking to friends that I haven't talked to in months and I stopped over analyzing over every comment and post and started to notice the fabulous things that happen in my own life instead of the lives of others.
*I should state that Jeremy had no such problems with FB but just erased his because he could care less.
8 years ago
