Today started with a Facebook notification that made me second guess our choice to even be on Facebook. My husband and I share a page as we had only really joined per request of his family years ago. It is actually hilarious to do because we are two totally different type of personalities. He likes to rev people up and pick on them and get a reaction and I just like to do the normal kid pic posting, recipe sharing once or twice a month. He is on there far more than I am as he likes to skim through some of his hunting and fishing pages. Well one of us had shared a post stating it will be illegal for people to smoke in a car with kids that are below 18 years in age starting October 1st in the UK . This is a law I can completely stand behind but sadly I am in the US and such a law doesn't exist yet. Well that did not stop one of my ex smoking uncles from going off on a rant on how our Government doesn't have the right to tell him that. He was quite angry which was surprising since he was a dead beat dad a, didn't live in the UK, and no longer smokes.... His obnoxious statement of "His car his kids!" nestled among some more colorful words just made me shake my head. My first thought was , "Damn.... Mr. Sky posts more offensive stuff than that and we have surprisingly never got such a crazy anger fest from a family member!" God forbid we don't support forcing lung cancer on innocent children! HA! I know, we are complete assholes right?
Of course this did not fly with me. I kindly told him that I did not carry little humans in my belly for 9 months, be in labor for 17 and 21 hours and stare into their precious little faces vowing to always protect them ONLY to turn around and trap them in a cancer car for the rest of their life. I stated that this law wouldn't even have to exist if people cared more about the well being of others MORE THAN their precious addiction. Once I called him on his moral compass or lack there of , he no longer had a reply. Phew. Drilling common sense and respect for others sure takes a lot out of ya when the skull is as thick as his and before I even had my coffee!
This had me thinking WHY THE HELL are we on this cursed Facebook anyway? I know we were pretty much coerced into joining years ago, but so many times I am just ready to hit the delete button. We both have felt this way. We have had the usual drama of the insecure guilt saturated person reading a graphic and assuming it was meant SOLEY for them leading them to go off on you .... We had the Facebook stalking work tramp stealing our photos and texting them to my husband pointing out which ones she like of him. She was doing this to 5 other guys all of a sudden too..... but that is an entirely different story titled "Thirsty Woman can't be trusted." >:) And we have had family members use Facebook to pretend they are an active part of our children's life which is unfortunate. Another part of Facebook that annoys me to no end is that people expect you to log in everyday and keep up with them! I swear! How dare you ask them in person how they have been, Silly fool! You should have been reading their Facebook wall where they clearly stated what they ate for breakfast, how large their last bowel movement was, and that their Boyfriend broke up with them. Seriously!?
I think at some point when something is no longer serving you in a positive way you have to ask yourself, "Does this make me happy?" We need to weigh the pros and cons of a situation and really rely on our inner intuition or gut instinct. So often when we hesitate we already know what we WANT to do but we refrain because of what others will think.
Either way, I would have woke up happier and respected my uncle more if we weren't on Facebook... but then again is ignorance really bliss?
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