There are people in all of our lives that maybe aren't ideal. The ones who talk too loud, know it all, or don't treat us as we'd like to be treated. Some may be related, some not but, we all have them, just think of my poor family - they have me!
I don't want to focus on any one person, that's not fair (or nice) but, I who have been thinking a lot about disconnecting from a very popular online social networking site, will share with you my peeves as of late.
If you recognize yourself I'm truly sorry if pointing it out offended you, just remember this:
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott
I'm so tired of the whiners, "How come you have? Where did you get? How come I didn't? Whaaa! Whaa! Whaa!"
And the mood changers, "I'm happy, I'm sad, I'm happy, I'm sad." They change almost every 20 minutes.
The ones who try to show you how great their lives are - They only ever share when they take a trip, or eat out, or do something the rest of us would be jealous of (if we were jealous people).
And the know it all - they know the contents of every encyclopedia, every law book. They know every rule and regulation and love to call you on it.
The perfect parents: They just disgust me beyond words. Yet, those parents who take these perfect parents to heart and judge their parenting by it, make me sad. None of us are perfect!
The chronic liker: They like every. Single. Post. You passed a test = Like. Your dog died = Like. This may never have happened to me nor could I possibly understand what you mean, I just like, like, like, like.
The drama queen: My boyfriend slept with my best friend who is his best friend's sister's mother's brother's baby momma but, they're still friends and I looooove him and we're going to get married.
The Prom King and Queen - busy, busy, busy, friends, friends, friends, go, go, go, anything goes - we love everyone and we're having a ball - Just look at us!
And then there's me - you never know what you're going to read or what I'm going to share and share often, maybe too often.
And so many, many more.
Social media has it's pluses. I love being in contact with my cousins again, aunts and of course my sisters nieces, nephews and old friends but sometimes, every once in awhile I can't help but wonder if some people were just meant to stay in your past. I believe that people we meet come along to either teach us something or to learn something. By keeping them at our fingertips are we just creating more trouble for ourselves? Are we interfering with the natural order?
Social media often just makes my blood boil. Sure, it's easy to say "block" or "delete" but, it's not as easy to do - especially when/if people are confrontational or you post so often that people would notice if you suddenly disappeared. It's kind of all or nothing, sometimes I wish I had never started.
Oh, wow, can I relate to this. There are so many good things, really, there are. But all of this you talk of, ugh....sometimes it's just too much. My biggest pet peeve is the "my life is perfect, it's all sunshine an butterflies, all. day. long" ones. Maybe it's because I've been in a rough place lately but I just can't handle it.
ReplyDeleteThis: every once in awhile I can't help but wonder if some people were just meant to stay in your past. I believe that people we meet come along to either teach us something or to learn something. By keeping them at our fingertips are we just creating more trouble for ourselves? Are we interfering with the natural order?
That is a very interesting thought....