i love when my visual thesaurus word of the day inspires a post. well, that’s only half true, because i promised you a post on facebook negativity, but waking up strangely early on a saturday along with the word, pushed me to write it. back in the day, i wrote many ‘word of the day’ posts. check them out if you’re bored.

antipathy

It looks like the opposite of sympathy and that’s not a bad way to characterize this noun, which means (in its core sense) “intense dislike.” If you’re looking for a verb to stick before it, arouse, overcome, display, and express are all popular candidates.

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I vote for an antipathy button on facebook. My campaign for positivity in my life has made me more aware of just how miserable people are when taking to their status updates. FML, I don’t want to go to work, When will it stop snowing, The rain is ruining my day, ME, ME, ME, The World should cater to me is all I hear when i read those updates. A few days ago it really started to bring me down for a moment. How how am supposed to remain positive when I am bombarded with all of  this?

Before I post an update, I like to think to myself, will this entertain? will this make my friends laugh, smile or feel good? If it doesn’t, I skip it. There is always someone (even among my 200 friends) that is going through something worse than I am.

I acted on impulse and started a campaign for uplifting updates fan page. This seemed like a good idea until I realized that I was doing the very same thing these people were doing. Believing that what I was feeling was important enough to share/preach at the moment.

Sure, I could just stop logging into Facebook, but I do it because I enjoy seeing new pictures that my sister posts of my niece, what my dad is making my mom for dinner, and what’s going on in the lives of people that live too far away to see every day. The whole reason why I got back into Facebook about a year and a half ago was because my whole family was on there – and as a part of my generation – I think it’s a fine way to stay in touch.

I guess I could just ignore those people, but on some days it feels like virtually everybody wants to fuck their own lives. Perspective. You are not the only person affected by whatever it is you think is out to ruin your day. Snow puts people out of work, keeps people from accessing food and medicine, the outside freaking world. Imagine the older woman, who takes a daily walk to keep the ol’ ticker ticking. Days and days of snow leaves her trapped indoors. For would she risk going outside and breaking a damn hip? But You ( not you ) need to take your young, able body outside and dig out your near-luxury vehicle that has heated seats and rear windshield wipers. To drive to your job that 14 million Americans no longer have. Wow. F your life indeed.