So I have been coming across various people and online memes criticizing the whole point of being so active on Facebook.
Their point is that its cooler not to have so much time at hand to be involved in telling it to the world what you are up to.
If you are seen on Facebook a lot, it inevitable means that you don’t have any better things to do. Moreover people have the same kind of conversations over and over again. Whatever is trending is what everyone is talking about.
Well, I agree with all of it as something that may be true for them and many others. So I am not really criticizing their thought process.
I am merely utilizing the opportunity that social media has given me to voice my opinion. Whether I am heard or not, or agreed with or not doesn’t really matter for me. What matters is that I said what I felt like and that’s more than enough.
I can have an opinion without being cut short in the middle, being misunderstood over translations and passed on versions and most importantly, without feeling the need to check with the mood of the room.
Apart from the talking and the commenting, there is another very important aspect for which I cannot thank social media and especially Facebook enough and that is the facility of posting pictures.
I have posted pictures of all the important and happy times of life and I continue to do so. And as life passes on, I keep visiting my own profile to revisit all those times that I have lived in the past.
When I look at my old pictures arranged in the chronological sequence, I realize all the hardships that have gone into to be able to live those happy times.
So whenever I am sad or out of ideas or scared of the inevitable that lies ahead, I go back to my profile and revisit all those pictures and those happy times. They give me strength to have patience and wait for my time to come.
For whatever hardships, sadness and rejections that I have faced in life when it was dark and gloomy and I had no idea what to do next, the happiness that followed them has always been worth it.
And it is for this reason that I firmly believe that the greatest thing about Facebook is that along with staying connected with your friends and family, it gives you an opportunity to stay connected with your past. Memories may get deleted but a post doesn’t. It can actually take you back to what really happened.
Life, love, this and that 