It’s
been a while, my friends! Let me
explain….
I’ve thought about writing a few times since we got settled
in here back at home, but I’m in such a quandary about what to write
about. Ok, I admit….I did write a blog
on the Chick-fil-A uproar, but it was after I de-friended a few crazies on fb
and I was still in a rage. Thankfully,
the hubs suggested I just think about it before posting. Bless him.
On principle, I refuse to blog about something relatively
pointless, like cleaning out the garage (plus, we haven’t done this yet) or a recap
of our weekends (to sum up the fall: cleaning, football, cooking out,
repeat). I also know I shouldn’t be
complaining about anything (i.e., my husband working too much or my order from
West Elm being on backorder) because, I know, these cannot even be considered
problems. Really, I love, love, love our
life, and it feels wrong to go on and on about how happy I am right now.
Last Thursday night/Friday morning, I thought about writing
about a small personal struggle I’ve been dealing with lately, but then, like
everyone else in the country, I saw the tragic headlines on MSN when I
refreshed my computer at work and that little struggle was put in
perspective. What the community and
those families are going through is unthinkable.
In thinking about what to write about last week, I was going
to elaborate/relate to this quote I saw on Pinterest
first (yep, still a thing) and on the movie The
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel:
Everything will be alright in the end, and if it’s
not alright, then it’s not yet the end.
Isn’t this a comforting statement? On Friday, I thought there really isn’t
anything to which this can’t apply. Even
if you think in extremes, like losing someone you love, you can think about
that person being in heaven, no hurt, no worries, only perfection. But I was wrong; I’m sure this would not be a
comforting statement to the parents who lost their six-year olds. While I can still find comfort in this saying
for myself, I realize that this statement, along with “Everything is a part of
God’s plan,” is not all that encouraging in certain situations.
Speaking of these phrases that are thrown around
flippantly…..Facebook is a crazy place where people just put it all out there,
isn’t it? They post crazy things they
would never in a million years say out loud in person. And frankly, it’s a little disturbing. Take the ‘I
am Adam Lanza’s Mother’ article that has gone viral; people have posted it
and added their own commentaries, without putting much of their own thought
into what they are posting. Then today I
saw the rebuke, ‘No, You are Not Adam
Lanza’s Mother and Yes, Your Kid,’ which was re-posted with, perhaps, just
as little thought. Who knows what to
think? And therein lies the problem –
not the fact that social media is a way for people to share others’ opinions,
but that so many others’ opinions are shared, rather than one coming up with
his or her own opinions.
So, even before last week’s disaster, I had decided that I
needed a Facebook hiatus, partly due to the aforementioned personal issue, but
in light of all the recent postings, my need to take a break is confirmed. It is certainly not that I’m not interested
in what everyone has to say (I love all the pictures, after all!), but to
regain a little peace and wean off the need to look at Facebook regularly, I am
vowing to not log in again until after the first of the year. Posting it here makes it official, a
commitment.
I hope everyone has a very happy holiday season! And please, remember to keep those who are
celebrating without someone this year in your thoughts.
Until
next time, sending love,
The
Spiveys
