Painted myself into a corner with a shit-brush, I did. I'm going to call it an epiphany. I just "unfriended" my 67 friends on Facebook. I feel like I'm doing them as much of a favour as I am myself. Facebook was becoming somewhat of a lifeline... a dependency. I was making ugly and outrageous posts, and I can only pray that my parents and my family will forgive my disgraceful impulsiveness.
I can't handle The Facebook anymore. I need to focus more on songwriting, and less on trolling through comments and "share this if you care" type stuff. My news feed was becoming such an obscene menagerie of gratuitous violence and random smut blended with fluffy animals, pictures of family, and upsetting current affairs. I couldn't take it anymore. Being opinionated, I was absorbed by current affairs commentary on network pages, but what's the point when your two-bits just blends into the background with the other 2600 comments?
Lately I've been feeling exasperated by everything I hear in the news, and I know I'm not the only one. I feel a sense of powerlessness and utter bewilderment... a longing for any semblance of certainty about the future. Of course the future is always uncertain, but there was actually a time in my life when I felt I could at least count on our public institutions to a degree. Now I just don't know what's what.
Maybe I need to get out more. The world frightens me though. There seems to be an increasing frequency of ordinary people snapping without warning. One minute you're enjoying a little music with friends at an end of school bash, and the next minute it's a blood bath, five of your friends are taken away on stretchers, dead.
Just off the top of my head:
250 innocent school girls kidnapped in Nigeria.
Russia using microwave weapons on the Ukraine.
EPA employee getting paid to watch porn while on the job.
A billion dollars wasted in Ontario.
Massive cover-up by senior officials over Benghazi.
Daily slaughter in Egypt and Syria.
Working on music, I can't help but feel like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns!
Where's the civility!
I guess the important thing is to remember that just because everything around me seems to be going to shit, I needn't go with it.
Good day / good night, esteemed reader, and God Bless! May you enjoy peaceful times with your loved ones, and may the future bring you serenity and prosperity.
I can't handle The Facebook anymore. I need to focus more on songwriting, and less on trolling through comments and "share this if you care" type stuff. My news feed was becoming such an obscene menagerie of gratuitous violence and random smut blended with fluffy animals, pictures of family, and upsetting current affairs. I couldn't take it anymore. Being opinionated, I was absorbed by current affairs commentary on network pages, but what's the point when your two-bits just blends into the background with the other 2600 comments?
Lately I've been feeling exasperated by everything I hear in the news, and I know I'm not the only one. I feel a sense of powerlessness and utter bewilderment... a longing for any semblance of certainty about the future. Of course the future is always uncertain, but there was actually a time in my life when I felt I could at least count on our public institutions to a degree. Now I just don't know what's what.
Maybe I need to get out more. The world frightens me though. There seems to be an increasing frequency of ordinary people snapping without warning. One minute you're enjoying a little music with friends at an end of school bash, and the next minute it's a blood bath, five of your friends are taken away on stretchers, dead.
Just off the top of my head:
250 innocent school girls kidnapped in Nigeria.
Russia using microwave weapons on the Ukraine.
EPA employee getting paid to watch porn while on the job.
A billion dollars wasted in Ontario.
Massive cover-up by senior officials over Benghazi.
Daily slaughter in Egypt and Syria.
Working on music, I can't help but feel like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns!
Where's the civility!
I guess the important thing is to remember that just because everything around me seems to be going to shit, I needn't go with it.
Good day / good night, esteemed reader, and God Bless! May you enjoy peaceful times with your loved ones, and may the future bring you serenity and prosperity.
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