Well my friends, this is it. Jo mina vänner, är det. I’ve decided after much deliberation that I am going to depart from Facebook this week. I feel like I’ve put more thought into this than most major decisions in my life and I’m already having separation anxiety. I’ll still continue to monitor my non-profit groups but as for myself, I need a little hiatus. About six months ago, I told my husband I was going to read a book my dear friend Karen gave me last year. I curled up on the couch and opened the first page......written inside was ”To Ruth from Karen 2010”. That was my epiphany. You know how you go on F/B for a few minutes and when you look up at the clock an hour has slipped by? Well for me, it was 4 years. It wasn’t like I hadn’t been reading a book all that time though, I was reading Facebook. It is an amazing book full of humor, sadness, births, deaths, failures, triumphs.....it has it all including a picture on every page! But it isn’t your standard book with a beginning, a climax and an end. And I realized that I spent many of my days anxious to see what happened in the next chapter. I’d be like many of you are right now.......sitting in bed, lying in the tub, waiting for your spouse at the gas station......stealing any moment I could to read the next page of my book. My friend Kristen says I was probably a ”highly sensitive child”. She’s absolutely right. And as much as Facebook is relaxing for some people, it is waaaaay too much sensory overload for me. I call it a ”Zen thief”. It took me a long time to realize that it isn’t a good thing for me. I was having so much fun posting pictures, using it as a political forum, ranting about people that pissed me off during the day, seeing what all my friends are up to, reading fabulous quotes......it was endless. But somewhere in my effort to get to know all of you better, I lost myself. I had no time to enjoy my summer kitchen, sit by my waterfall, pick berries......all the things I loved so much. I had so much going on in my head that I missed just being in the moment. So, in my quest to reclaim my inner peace, I’m going to slide quietly off the grid this week. I know some of you are thinking I should have just done that in the first place LOL. I just couldn’t leave without saying goodbye to some of you that I may never see again. To my beautiful family in Finland and Sweden who I pray will keep in touch with me by email. I don’t ”like” my Facebook friends, I love them all I’m off to buy some good old fashioned note paper. Feel free to message me your address and I’ll try to drop you a line.....in ink......to arrive in your mailbox. For the rest of you, I’ll see you at work or at the gym or by my waterfall if you care to stop in for a visit
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:53:20 +0000
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