every single day you make a choice

Jan 9, 2014

you make a choiceI always make a conscious effort to start my day with a positive mental attitude… and a big ole’ cup of Big Easy Bold coffee. I hug my dogs and look outside and think about how grateful I am. It’s a fact that we must face many life events that we know are going to shrivel our souls to about the size of a raisin, but we can choose to ignore trivial things that are upsetting or make us crazy. Like certain Facebook status posts…

Yes, every single day I choose to scroll fast right past certain types of information my ‘friends’ provide on Facebook. The 5 types of statuses that are most abrasive to me are:

  1. “I’m taking a week off from Facebook.”
    Why exactly would you need to announce that? If you need a FB break, take it. Take a year if you want! We aren’t stupid… you put it out there hoping we will ask you ‘why.’
  2. “See this photo of a dead dog in the snow? Bring your dogs inside during the cold.”
    Pointless & upsetting, you guys. Those of us with pets who care about their well-being already know to bring them in when conditions are harsh if they don’t already sleep in our bed every night. Assholes who don’t care aren’t going to bring them inside just because you shared a morbid photo on FB and told them they should. Sharing images for ‘shock value’ stick in my brain even when I scroll fast. In general, I wish everyone would stop it — this includes sharing graphic images from wrecks, deformed babies, injured animals and bloody abuse victims.
  3. “My life is perfect. My parents are happy and I am happy and my kids are happy and I live in a mansion surrounded by rainbows and butterflies and pink mushrooms and glittery unicorns.”
    Ummm… no. Most of us KNOW BETTER! What makes this worse? Others who also KNOW BETTER but still click the “like” button on the ridiculous status post. Seriously? C’mon now!
  4. “Please pray for ME. My {insert loved one here} is sick or dying or is getting deployed or divorced or is constipated.”
    How about you ask for prayers for THEM? Ok, I admit this is a pet peeve of mine — the ME ME ME thing gets old quick. NOTE: You will get blindsided by these posts and read them before you know you shouldn’t have.
  5. “I want to keep all my stuff private. Please click on my name and then on the settings tab and then on the share button and then click that you won’t share my stuff with your friends who aren’t my friends and then…”
    FB is a social network. It’s not private. That bunch of garbage you just posted? It’s a hoax. Before you blah blah blah stuff you want your friends to do, go to Snopes and do a little research first.

So what types of status posts do YOU choose to ignore?