This week I decided to unsocialize myself. I quit facebook and the forum I have visited for years. No deep philosophical reasons for it, just got tired of the same old stuff. The forum was a homeschool forum and while homeschool was discussed so were many hot buttons. I think my rose colored glassed just got too cracked for my taste. Seeing how people really think, the hate in them, the "me" mentality, the "everyone is an idiot if your view is different" people. Then there are those who can shove tolerance down your throats but have no idea what it really means. I think the thread that got me started on feeling the need to get away from these people was on a thread that discussed breaking laws. Apparently it is okay to break rules and laws if you think they are stupid or don't apply to you and your special family. Boggles the mind...how does one pick and choose what laws and rules to follow and which ones do not apply to you. Change the law don't break it. Don't like a rule of an establishment, then don't go there. Why do you get to decide what is right/wrong/or not needing to pertain to you.
Anyway, I will move on..........
Since I now have eliminated half the purpose of going online for me, I now have more time. Time to focus on the house, on homeschooling, and even on myself. Since Monday I have cleaned the entire house, organized my closet, finished knitting mittens for my hubby (this deserves a blog post of its own), taught school to Em (all subjects)and be finished by 11:30am, read a book, made yarn balls from skeins of yarn, and made gauge swatches for the 3 projects I plan to knit for myself. I have found new enjoyment in the home. I even made a cake and found myself bored for a short time on Wednesday. Even have time to blog again.
The thing is, I never really spent hours and hours on these sites, just while I drank coffee and then an occasional peek to see if anything needs a response. I think the time sucked from my day was the emotional gunk these things placed on me. It slowed me down. Got me irritated and at times in a funk. It was all that gunk I took away from my time online that slowed me down. It was enough of a "gunk takeaway' that not having it anymore was visible...an acquaintance saw me yesterday and commented how happy I looked. I realized I really felt happy. I mean not just surface happy, but deep down. I did not have all that gunk build up anymore.
So there will be no facebook or twitter for me...no following forums. I will be , in the worlds eyes, unsocialized. I will get my rosy glasses fixed. I will be happy.
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