New Direction

First order of business…

Today is the day my blog is taking a new direction. I realize that creating one to solely document my progress as a writer is not doing myself (or my writing) justice. Most of it has been talking about how I PLAN to write, instead of actually doing it. How useful is that? In my opinion, it’s not.

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.” ~ E.L. Doctorow

I fell in love with that quote after reading it here. That’s what I have been doing this entire time. So, no more of that. The planning has been squashed. Time to simply write…. whatever it may be, and wherever it may lead.

Here goes…

Last night I had a long conversation with one of my friends. It’s one of those friendships where we don’t keep in touch as much as we should, but we always pick up where we left off. During our talk, Facebook became a topic. Sigh… I know everyone has SOMETHING to say about it. We were discussing peoples’ statuses (in general). Honestly, I believe you can learn a lot (perhaps in some cases not) about a person by what they say in their status update.

Lately I have come to the realization that people COMPLAIN far too much. Now, I definitely cannot say that I haven’t been guilty of such. We all do it at some point, but some people only have negative things to say. It’s as if everyone is their enemy and out to get them. I may be a bit dramatic in some of my examples to come, but if you honestly take time to think about it…it’s true.

• I’m tired of reading “I’m so sick…” What about the people that truly are ill and the people that are dying? Think they are complaining about a common cold?
• I’m tired of reading “I’m hungry, what should I eat?” What about the starving kids that are wondering WHEN or IF their next meal is coming.
• I can’t stand how people list every television show they watch. It makes me wonder if they ever pick up a newspaper or a book. At least watch some CNN or something!
• It’s frustrating to see how some people claim Kim Kardashian, Lil Wayne, Britney Spears, Mike Vick, etc to be their heroes. Seriously? Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt or Clara Barton…read The Autobiography of Malcolm X or something about Marcus Garvey. Watch Oprah. Look at strong political leaders…Obama, Hilary. Then please get back to me on this.
• People put their exact location, then complain that some creep “ran into them.” He probably saw where you were from your Facebook status dummy!
• It’s funny to see a female that states she is broke one day, then says she is going shopping the next. Hypocritical much?

I could go on, but I won’t. It’s far too long of a list…..but perhaps I shouldn’t care. It is their life and not my own, so really what can I do? Hopefully people realize to change their ways.

I’ll leave you with a status one of my friends posted yesterday. Food for thought.  “FB is turning everyone into high school students again people need to be mature and stop being petty myself included!”