Life is funny. The world we live in, not so much. I recently had the experience of having to caucasian female “friends” just stop short of calling me racist. The first simply because of the fact that I am caucasian and live in the United States which apparently means my family has a history of slave ownership. I just never responded as I am second generation American. Three of my grandparents were right off the boat from Ireland that last one wasn’t here much longer. The other friend stopped just short of calling me a racist because of who I voted for in the last election.
It turns out less than five minutes pushing buttons on a screen wipes out your whole life. Who knew?
Yesterday I ran an experiment on my facebook page and related the incidents just to see what would happen. What response would I get? My friends are a rainbow and I love it. I truly live by “If you are a good person, you are a good person.” Now I have stated I am intolerant of politicians. Very, very intolerant and I need to work on that… some day. I don’t care what color you are, if you say you are a politician I have to control myself and it is hard to do. Seriously.
Anyway, back to the experiment. I have whittled my friends list down to 65 people and they are people I want to stay in touch with. I unfriended hundreds of people when I realized they had so many friends they never saw my posts. I mean really 65 can be hard to keep up with. These are folks I have known for years. Some since I was a kid, some since early adulthood. People who helped my bury my brother, who have been to my home, I to theirs and I call many of them my family. So imagine my surprise when not one person stood up for me. Not one. I got some “care” icons, but that was it.
I was stunned. Then it hit me. People are terrified. They are terrified of being labeled in that way so none of them were going to stand up for me. None of them would take a chance of being labeled the same way.
I suddenly understood what people have been saying about our society. The path we are taking in a whole new way. I suddenly had a very different, more intimate view, of WWII. Of any communist state and horror it holds. Standing by while people you know are wrongly attacked and just being thankful it isn’t you.
You are probably thinking “drama much”, but honestly that is what I saw and I understood what all of these people who come to our amazing country for freedom are warning us of. I get it.
I’ve closed my FB account. I’m done. My husband and I are making major changes in our lives. Mostly because of my health and other things.
I don’t know if I will keep doing this blog or any other. I am having issues with my eyes and screen time appears to make it worse.
If you read this I hope you will be safe.
God Bless
Just Be 