enjoying the silence by jee

this picture has nothing to do with this post but i wanted to put it up here because we don't find good seafood here in landlocked Missouri - so i had me some delicious lobster last week when i was in the nation's capital. how i missed devouring buttery crustaceans.

so i've been off the book of faces for a couple weeks now. i still find myself clicking on the book of faces app on my ipad every other day. creature of habit i am. i had told my wife to create a new password for my account so i could truly be away from the chaos. i thought i would give myself a break for a couple weeks. but now it seems like it may be a more permanent arrangement. unplugging  from social media has given me great peace. i can actually hear my own thoughts again. i can interpret and take in the world as my unique brain and heart sees, hears, smells and touches it. i didn't even realize that i had lost or was losing a lot of this while wading through the book of faces. i could watch a presidential debate, process it, formulate my thoughts and opinions, and close the book on it. no one commenting on anything, disagreeing with anything, no one calling me a buttface for thinking what i think. i was in possession of my own thoughts, not swayed by an avalanche of posts inundating my feed. after all, i'm going to the voting booth all by my lonesome to cast my personal vote for the leader i think is best. i'm glad i was able to silence the chaos around me. sure there is some FOMO i'm dealing with but you know what, i'm told i'm not missing out on much (i sometimes ask jane what is going on in the book of faces).

let's start a revolution friends. let's pry ourselves out of the chaos and all that racket that is social media. it's all just too much. it's all getting too dark. it's all getting too mean. join me, won't you? i know most won't - i'm still trying to get jane out of it. you have to try it to truly understand.