I’ve taken a hiatus from social media, mostly Facebook. I spend way too much time on it anyway, but last week, I received some news I was hoping not to get, and I tapped out.
Part of me doesn’t care at all what people are doing living their lives on social media – it’s the same things every day. Now, I still get notifications and where I help admin for our breastfeeding support group, I help approve posts. But outside of that, I don’t look at my feed, I don’t care. I simply couldn’t care less, it’s not my job to update the world and live my life up for discussion and approvals.
Out of habit, I open the app, see the first thing in the feed, and I just can’t. I close the app and move on. I don’t need to see superficial arguments, I don’t care about politics. I don’t want to see people I know are unhappy pretending not to be, for the sake of collecting likes. I can’t stand people waving around their problems so much that it’s how they feel human and how they gain interaction with others. The relation to our fucked up-ness.
This lady gave me advice on breastfeeding once. She said, “don’t take advice from people who haven’t been where you’re trying to be. If you are looking to run a marathon, talk to someone who ran a marathon, not someone who can’t run a mile. If you want to nurse for a year, talk to someone who nursed that long, not someone who nursed three weeks.” That’s great advice for many things and I’m applying it now. I’m trying to vibrate with higher energy now. I am above some people and my energy is just different. And I need to associate my energy with like energies and also those at levels I’m trying to get to.
My hiatus has lasted a week and I have no desire to get on and see what others are up to. I have had zero people reach out to me and ask me about being absent in the virtual world. A sort of lack of social interaction that didn’t get noticed. Isn’t that interesting? People are so wrapped up in what they’ll broadcast about their own lives that they don’t even ask about yours.
I’m not sorry. I don’t know when I will be back on but maybe I will stay away for another week. It’s causing all sorts of things like looking up interesting topics, watching documentaries and playing with my kids. Imagine that.
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