Meditation for December 9th, 2016
Sitting Outside the Vacuum
For one week I’ve not had the Facebook app on my iPhone. This may not seem too hard or big of a deal for some, I can assure you that it had changed everything for me.
I have spent more time on other social media accounts I have like Twitter and Instagram. I have mostly put the phone back in my pocket to either watch the world around me or to concentrate on the music I’m listening to.
I feel calmer and more serene. I have spent less than fifteen minutes on Facebook this week, and it was mostly bringing you this fine blog. I haven’t seen all the hate, anger, lies, and people sucked into their precious little vacuums.
One of the things I realized not being on Facebook is how much people blame Facebook for making the world the way it is, but really Facebook is just being what people want it to be. No one had to publish links, but they decided to be the bringer of political “truths”. Don’t blame Facebook while being on Facebook.
This is a true meditation on a fulfilling life is this absence from this narcissistic opinion aggragrator. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to stay off of it.
I wonder what I’m missing. I wonder if I have lots of notifications. I check. It’s two likes for my blogs, five people are live, it’s so and so and whatsherbutt’s birthday, and there is an event I’m not going to is happening soon. What a waste of my fucking time, but I will start scrolling and scrolling and there is fucking nothing real happening. Time then shoots into the future with me going through a Facebook wormhole skipping hours of my life.
In some moments I feel that I need Facebook, but other times I feel that it’s time to undo my account. I know, I have already talked about this topic, but Facebook is single handedly unraveling everyone’s spirituality.
I’m also really running out of things to meditate on. I’m a month away from completing a year of meditations for no other reason than because I said I would. I needed to do it to fix my own brain, but I subjected you to it. I have been one of the few people to post original content on my Facebook page instead of posting memes and links.
I did do that.