So I have considered quitting Facebook. I know, I know everyone seems to take a Facebook hiatus at some point but we all seem to be dragged back in. I mean when did it become so important to know everyone's every move (or at least the ones they deem social media worthy). However if I quit Facebook I am sure the cries of protest from my mother and mother in love would be audible all the way from South Carolina. But I am tired. Tired of Facebook being my news source. I admit I am very guilty of not staying up to date with current events until I see the newest hashtag or read an article someone posted. That's just life right now with two small children and the fact that my family is my current event. I don't have the time I used to and scouring news sites isn't my idea of fun anymore. Now I know I should stay informed but I don't look to social media to keep me informed. I look to social media to see cute cat videos (does anyone still watch those?), to see my friends from all my years become mothers and fathers and to see their beautiful children, to share pictures of my children, and to have a place to vent when my two year old is driving me mad. Will I ever actually go through with quitting Facebook? Who knows. I sort of feel like Facebook has taken over real relationships for me sometimes. It's so easy to just scroll through snippets of peoples lives and not really connect with those people. Maybe I'll just take a hiatus from Facebook since I am pretty sure I am one of the few people I know who has never done that in the ten plus years I have had Facebook.
I am so saddened by all I do see in the news and like I said it's not often that I catch whats going on in this world. I often wonder if our world really is so much worse than it was in the past or if it is that we have instant access through media to every event that takes place. Either way I am sad for the world I seem to be shaping for my children. My first instinct is to run away or stick my head in the sand and go about my life. However, that never brings about change. I wish that I could put a cocoon around my babies and keep them from all harm. I wish I could keep them from ever knowing how mean and awful people can be. How after so many years of saying all men and women are equal we have never truly meant that. How this country seem so full of hate. Hate for all things and all sides. I thought moving out of the south would make it better but it happens here too. Is it too much to ask for a utopia where the color of skin doesn't matter? Where our differences make us special and allow us to come together to use our difference for good not evil. I guess maybe it is or maybe just maybe we can raise that utopia. We always hear that our children are our future but when are we going to truly break the cycle of hate and teach them to love everyone no matter their differences.
Sorry for such a heavy post but these thoughts needed to go somewhere. I wish I had all the answers and honestly there are more thoughts still swirling in my brain but I think this is enough for today. I hope that in someway today you will choose love, not hate, and I hope that in someway today I will too. And that my son and daughter will learn love, not hate, as their primary language.
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