It's kinda strange though isn't it?
I Mean what's that even mean?
Are we no longer friends really not friends?
Or just not friends on Facebook?
Like if I were to see those who unfriended me
Or if they were to see me who unfriended them
Would we walk across the street to say "Hey"?
For my part
The answer I've arrived at
Is this
A note to the ufnrienders
A note to the unfriended
It's no thing to me
Some time back
A year or more
I simplified
Downsized
Purged 100 some odd "friends"
I've been wanting to communicate something
About doing that
Somewhere besides Facebook
Since then
That's what this is
This is to let it be known
Those considered friend before Facebook
Are considered the same today
If I would've walked across the street to say "Hey"
Before the friending
Second friending
Re-friending
Cyber-friending
Unfriending
or unfriended-ing
Then I'd still do the same today
Tomorrow
Next week
In ten years...
That said
My bullshit tolerance level has bottomed out
My tolerance for seeing Russian troll generated posts
Even lower
There'll be no more
If shared
If I see it
If I haven't clicked "unfriend"
I've definitely clicked "unfollow"
Done
I don't want to see it
I'm better off not knowing how I know
Is helping a hostile foreign power
Is helping Russia
Attack the country I love
Attack the USA
Ignorance is so ugly
Racism is the same
Lack of compassion
It puts me in a foul mood
Once more
The purpose of this short entry
Is to communicate to any who may see this
If I unfriended you
Or you me
It's no thing to me
If we fought online
It's no thing to me
Any resentment has been lain to rest
Or for those who never got into it
Over politics
With me
If I unfriended you
It's likely we never
or very rarely
communicated
clicked like
etc.
On there
So "unfriend" just happened
During my downsize FB phase
That too
Is no thing to me
I meant no harm
For others it's best we're not connected on there
If or when ever we meet F2F
This way we won't have arguing politics
Fresh in our mind
Some seem to handle it okay
Find balance, ignore this and like that
Some not
Me not
So that's that
Inochi Mujo is the title of a favorite Mitsuo Aida Poem. いのち無常 ~ LIFE IS TRANSIENCE. Life is Here and Now. I enter the blogosphere with 初心者の心 - shoshinsha no kokoro -- "Beginner's Mind" i.e. I've no idea how to blog. HAA! I just like to write. Expat in Japan, family, Nature, martial arts, religion, politics, culture, recovery, whatever. And so some of my ramblings can be found Here. And now. Hi-HO!
About Me
- caseysan39
- In late summer 1998 I moved from the place I grew up and spent most of my life (Central California) to a small town in Japan. I loved training in Shotkan and dreamt of training in Japan someday, I just didn't know someday would arrive when it did. I signed a one year English teaching contract, missed California life quite a bit but decided okay one more year then that's it. A few months into that second year contract I met a girl. You can probably guess the rest. The plan was return to California eventually but here I am still--still with that girl and now three awesome getting bigger every day kids to boot. Sometimes we pick the journey. Sometimes life does. I still enjoy doing martial arts. Still learning how to dad. Got a house, learned the word expat, etc. Oh yeah, and I love to write. Not that I know anything more about it than what I haven't forgotten that English teachers taught me. More that I find joy in doing it. Write for who or about what? The greatest American poet sums it up best: "One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself".
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