The Purge

Im in the process of purging my life. 

•  Purge (perj) adj - to get rid of, remove physically.  An ugly sounding word for something that creates or makes clean or pure.

These next few weeks, I'm purging my room, body (lemonade-cleanse for 10 days), car, social networking (deactivated fb & less IG-ing), clothes, people, 'not-really' friends, everything that is negative is going out the door. 

Things all around me that weigh me down, make me unhappy, or prevent personal progression are being PURGED!

All the rage for the next few weeks:  PURGE

I'm also purging my life because

I'm overwhelmed by social media. 

I had a conversation with some of my very good friends about posting every single aspect of your life w/ pictures.  

For example:

"This is me smiling" "This is me smiling when I woke up" "This is me smiling when I walk out the door" "This is me and my denim pants walking out the door" "This is the door that leads to my house" "This is the house and my family smiling in the house" "This is my...........well............you get the picture. 

Why is the world socially needy?!

At what point did we start living through pictures and status' of ourselves and our lives. When did "likes" and "thumbs up" become our validations to show everyone how perfect our lives are. It's silly really. We compete to have the best, look the best, live the best.......ALL THROUGH IG PICTURES OR FB/TWITTER STATUS'. 

Documenting every single second of your life will start to lose meaning to all the really-important, incredibly-special moments. When there is finally a post, picture, status, or something that's incredibly important, it just gets lost in an entire compilation of ALL your 20 daily "incredibly-amazingly-important" things posted.  That special documented moment loses half it's significance because it's overshadowed by 50 other "this is so special" unimportant ones posted. Yes small moments do count, but maybe every single smooch, hug, smile, or whatever doesn't always have to be documented for the entire world...........every single day. 

***I do love little kid/baby pics though. No doubt when I have little mini-me's I'll be posting their chubby little faces all over my world***

Overexposure.

It's not just for the Kardashians anymore. 

It's how our current society adapts to a never-ending need for "acceptance" and "popularity". 

OUT goes meaningful personality and face-to-face confrontation and IN with virtual comments and the most "likes". That is what wins the popularity race nowadays. 

I probably won't win the popularity parade with this post, and I'll have a few people asking, "Who is she talking about?". Truth be told, I'm not talking about anyone specifically. Just in general because I'm tired of everything lately. So I'm purging it all. 

In closing:

I've been rebuilding my life for a while now.  (hence: purging)

I post things on FB and IG too. 

But not everyday. Because I don't do super fun interesting things everyday, so I'd rather not make everyone think I do. I have a great life. And I have lots of downs too. I post a bit of both because it makes me feel more human and more in touch with reality. 

I don't know what my reputation is with people, nor do I care as much as before.

Most of the people I spent time at work with, am in some way related to, knew in some way, or care about how I "looked" to them, ended up talking about me or treating me a different way when they thought my reputation was tarnished because they hear things about me (and seeing "other" people), or talked about me when I went crazy during my down 2 years.  I don't care for a lot of people. And a lot of people seemed to be nicer to me or write to me on FB when they need help with FA applications, interviews or passes, but didn't hear from them at all when I had a meltdown or struggled to get back on my feet or really just needed a reprieve from life.

Bottom line: