I wonder what I'm doing today...
I am taking the rest of June off Social Media. That’s right surrendering my passwords to Lovely Laura and seeing what emerges FROM THE NOISE THAT IS ALL THE SNS THINGS.
All the scrolls.
All the posts.
All the pictures.
All the videos.
All the memes.
Don’t get me wrong I LOVE seeing all the pictures and all the lovely content that people create. I love seeing what’s going on in your business and life. Your holidays, your goals met, your lovely bikini bodies, your physical fitness feats, your dreams coming true, your celebrations.
In fact - I was that child who loved when the neighbour came over to show us the slideshow - I never understood why people were cynical about that.
But that’s life as and edge dweller - you see things different from a very young age. (RuPaul would say you see the Matrix, you understand the illusion).
And I know you are a full human being with all the feelings. And I know that YOU GET TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU PUT OUT THERE.
I see you.
I witness you.
I value you - a full human.
And you may be extremely sad inside and posting delightful pictures of your family - entirely your choice.
You are the boss of the media.
I get that you want to scroll loveliness and put on a brave face.
I get that you are not faking it.
I get that you just want to scroll through the loveliness of your life in paradox.
So I want to be really clear - this is not about shaming here.
What it is is addiction, clarity, and white noise.
AND NOT BEING GODDAM ANNOYED
But my goodness - I would be happy and in a calm and blissful state.
Then start scrolling FOR NO REASON and then be annoyed in seconds.
The opinions.
The weirdness.
The news stories.
The clickbait.
The ads.
The manipulation.
My own head.
My own triggers.
My own insecurities.
And I would keep going.
I would tell myself GET OFF.
Then a minute late I would be scrolling again.
Annoyed again.
Then I would log out.
Two minutes later - automatically clicking on it again.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
How sweet am I?
My thumbs hurt.
My eyes hurt.
My Dowagers Hump (Google it) is coming on a treat.
Yet, there I am again and again breaking my heart with news stories and click bait and the stream of political opinion out there.
I could read a book. Watch a film. Sit quietly.
And so when I realised that the last year I have done about a million projects this last year, a LOT of travel and am exhausted and yet I was still feeling like I wasn’t doing enough and was a loser and there were some seriously horrible stories emerging in my head. I thought it's time to do what the lady in Bali told me. In earnest.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
Does to a lot of my clients - let me tell you.
And my friends.
And acquaintances.
And all of them are lovely, loving, generous, hard working, ethical people. Bar none.
But they’ll tell themselves they aren’t.
And they’ll behave in ways that doesn’t befits their true nature because they think they are naughty and lazy and something something.
Where doesn’t this stuff come from?
So many places!
And I recognised my brain keeps filing up on noise with the social media on a daily basis in a compulsive and daft way.
And my creativity was waning.
So I’m so excited to run away to the beach and kick off spending the rest of June away from Social Media.
I’ll still be posting things up there every day - so keep an eye out and get involved.
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