Is it just me?
Does anyone else post humourous,
light-hearted status updates when they are feeling anything but
light-hearted?
Sometimes I do this and I feel like a
fraud.
Other times I think along the lines of
'fake it 'til you make it', reminding me of that song from 'The King
and I' –
“I Whistle a happy tune.
And every single time
The happiness of the tune
Convinces me that I'm
Not afraid.”
So maybe posting upbeat status updates
is a way to convince myself that I am not in a funk, that I can find
delight in everyday things.
Besides who would want to read gloomy
status updates?
Not me.
When I do read these kind of updates, I
want to spring into action and fix things for others.
My children, over the years, have had a
habit of posting song lyrics as status updates.
Of course, being out of the loop of
today's music, I didn't know they were song lyrics and sometimes they
were so dire, and cryptic that I would launch into mama tiger mode.
“It's a song lyric Mum!” texted with exasperation.
Oh, (shouldn't there be a disclaimer
when one posts song lyrics like, how about, dwmiasl (don't worry mum
it's a song lyric)?
Knowing it's a song lyric should calm
the anxiety, but sometimes the lyrics are so dark that I just fret
and wonder why that particular song lyric was chosen.
Sigh.
It's hard living inside my head.
I have heard that Facebook is going to
instigate a 'dislike' button.
Sometimes I have wished for a 'dislike'
button when someone posts something I want to empathise with. But I
predict, as have others, that this is going to get ugly.
As a melancholic I know it will get
ugly for me. What if I post a happy update and people start pressing
the dislike button?
I am on Ravelry.com and they have a
'disagree' button on their forums.
I had to disable seeing it – it made
me crazy – not just the disagrees on things I posted, but the
disagrees on things others had posted.
Perhaps if Mark Zuckerberg is reading
this post (guffaw) he could consider allowing users to disable the
dislike button.
Just a thought.
Oh, and Mark, if you are reading this,
a share would be appreciated.
I would love a few more followers on
this blog.
Status Update:
Camping in the HooDoos. Fog clearing
to reveal blue, sunny skies. Sunset Tour with my hubby tonight.
Doesn't get much better than this.
For Real.
