Greetings!

Thank you for visiting my bog, if anyone has actually stumbled across it... :)

Recently, the uptick in world craziness has really started to get to me.  So much so, that I hate to admit it, but logging on to my facebook has begun to make me feel anxious.  I know that there will be 'nice' memes, cute pictures of doggies, and a much needed reminder about a birthday I have forgotten.  But there will also be a continuous onslaught of new articles, blog posts, and what I'd call "hostile" memes all to do with one of the things on the increasingly long list of what not only divides us as people, but polarizes us... and I hate to admit that it is getting to me.

It's not that I'm against debates or discussions.  I'm not.  I'm very opinionated (as you will find out if you keep coming to this blog).  It's just that it is a constant barrage of opposing views, everyone shouting all at once.  It's almost impossible to have a real discussion about anything.  People don't follow a thread of conversation, they hear things the other person wasn't saying, too many people jump in on only one side, etc, etc.  What is even the etiquette for it?  I mean, this sort of craziness is begging for someone to write a "Miss Manners" for it.

So, is it hypocritical for me to write a blog, since I feel this way?  Well, yes.  Of course.  Blogs are not usually a fair discussion, because the blogger gets final say... for sure.  And I will welcome (respectful) comments, but the real reason I'm writing here is not to start some kind of discussion board where sanity reigns (though that would be nice).  It's because in an odd way part of managing my anxiety is to give myself a voice.  Because I feel silenced.  But I just don't want to and honestly can not handle the cacophony of facebook.  I guess, in a sense, this is a sort of therapy.  I'm facing my fear of speaking my mind in small bits, and in a safer place.  That kind of makes me feel like a wimp, honestly.  I wish I were a brave person, but at least here, I can be an honest one.  Yeah, that's me, being honestly, hypocritically, non-confrontationally,controversial!  Ha!