Dear Friends and Others Who Come To This Page, This is a message to let you know I am leaving the world of Facebook. It has been a long, interesting, sometimes fun and funny, and oftentimes painful experience for me. For years now I have struggled with feeling like I so often show up and contribute and respond to thousands, and have done so mostly without any compensation at all, and yet when I reach out and ask people to step up in some way or contribute to something that is important to me, the response is usually, for me, heartbreakingly low. Years ago, I got on FB thinking it would be a way for me to be myself in a more personal way, but also in hopes that it would be a conduit for helping me make a bigger change in the world and for mobilizing people around campaigns, causes, and organizations I care about and work with. And although I know it has been a way for me to do that on a certain level, the level of people who actually support via signing petitions, donating money, or other ways the request to support comes through is very, very low for the toll it has taken on me personally being so sensitive and being such a public person, as well as the very real time it has taken for me to personally interact with thousands of people. In this last month, I have been getting the message over and over through one frustrating and heartbreaking experience after another that I seem to have a pattern of showing up really big for people and organizations, but apparently not the appropriate discernment process for who and when and how much of myself to give and contribute, as well as I have clearly set up the space to be taken for granted, used, and also many people having a sense of entitlement and “ownership” over me because I am a public person. Trying to manage and process all of these things combined have made me cynical, hurt, and way less compassionate than I truly want and am committed to being. For these and other reasons, I am now making this choice to disengage from this way of being in communication with the world. I am truly not trying to play victim here, nor am I trying to place blame or shame, so please allow me the grace of being human if it does come across that way. I am merely sharing from my heart about my experience, and why I am making this choice. I will keep my page up for a few more days in case there are any important messages I need to receive before I close this page down. My final effort on FB is fundraising for an amazing woman named Pam Dorr and her project HERO in Alabama. It would mean a lot to me (and to Pam and the community of Greensboro) if you would contribute to the campaign. Even $5 adds up in crowd-sourcing efforts like this one. Also any amount of $50 or more is 100% tax deductible by law as long as no award is chosen. If you would prefer to write a check, please private message me and i will send you the information. gofundme/heroforhero From the depths of my heart thank you to the people who have supported the things I have put forward as important to me. And thank you to the friendships that have been able to remain connected because of this social media platform. I trust we will be able to remain connected in other ways. Love, julia
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:21:47 +0000
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