Missing & Lost

I sit down to write. I find some good music on youtube and I let my body feel the words that need to come out and I look at Facebook for a moment before I switch over to Word, and I. Am. Disgusted.

Social Media is the antichrist. Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and any other site of the like.

For starters… simply… Facebook allows us to stay connected to people we were never meant to stay connected to, for life. People are meant to be in our lives either for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Not ALL people are meant for life. However, social media enables that! It’s not a good thing, no matter how many cute photos and shares brighten our day. We’re frozen in a virtual time warp – never able to move forward because we carry the past with us.

Additionally, let’s look at what is happening right now, today. We’re able to screen capture and copy links and paste links and manipulate photos and stories and MAKE UP things that aren’t true and we share and share and share again and then the entire world is swayed by lies and deceived by all that is constantly thrown in their face on Facebook, and Twitter, and Instagram. Hashtags and videos and petitions and anger and sadness and hurt. Strong emotions! Emotions so strong that they’re driving people into a deep depression, and sometimes worse.

The GOOD part of social media is over. We’ve surpassed catching up with old friends, saying hello, seeing what they look like and how they are now. We’ve surpassed using social media to locate missing family members, abducted children, etc. Social media is now swirling with hate and division and it’s like a cancer feeding our souls.

Take a deep breath and look around…. The race war…. The religion war… the political war… the war on our freedoms in the very heart of the land of the free! Being forced to wear face masks in the name of a bullshit virus that media on the internet is force feeding us EVERY DAY! Fear is alive and hyperventilating in the core of everyone…. And social media is the fuel that is keeping it all burning.

It’s for this reason that I’m going to step back… I’m hurting, grieving for a part of me that is missing and lost and I’m certainly not finding it on the pages of Facebook. I’m not deleting my account, because I use messenger to communicate with friends. I’m simply going to log out for a while because I don’t want to know what this president or former presidents have fucked up. I don’t want to know the latest COVID count. I don’t want to hear about the statues being torn down or the buildings being renamed or for the love of God, that Aunt Jemima is being forgotten because she was black. I don’t want to see more quotes posted by keyboard warriors (and I certainly don’t want to continue being one, myself.) I don’t want to read “thoughts and prayers” anymore because THOSE ARE JUST WORDS on a screen. I want to believe in my heart that there are people out there who think about me, and might actually pray to the real God – not the electronically lit one.

Perhaps… in the midst of my wandering… maybe God will hear my cry and bless us all with a break in the chaos. Lord knows, we need it.

Feel free to shoot me a message on messenger if you’d like to say hi. I’m still here, just over there.