#347.365 (Offerings)

"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it."
- Sylvia Boorstein


Title: Bleep Moment(s)
Flickr User Ria Pereira

Re-Assessing the place of social media in my life....

I'm decided to take a real look at the negative affects of social media like LJ and Facebook - I'm going to probably take a giant step back away from it.

First of - its all very addictive to me - and I need to think about it's role in my life and how to reign it in a little. Second - there is a lot of anger and snark out on the internet that I continually get drawn into and it ends up causing a lot of bad things emotionally.

I know that a lot of you are connected to me only on Facebook or LJ - but I simply can't spend the amount of time I spend on line scrolling through pictures and feeling less and less truly connected to any of it.

I need less input for a while. I'm concentrating on rewriting House of Wolves and rejoining the characters and story in my 2nd novel. My relationship with David is strong.

as a friend of mine that I traded notes about this decision with - I'm suffering from a mild case of "digital poisoning" and need to just step back a little.

so I won't DELETE my profile - I'll still be here - but I think for a while I'll make LJ a once a week thing or perhaps every OTHER week. I just can't do it as a daily thing any longer.

my direct email is my email is robert@robertmcdiarmid.com - be in touch if you'd like.