In the age of social media how are we living our lives as well as dealing with the atrocities of war. Lots of questions, hoping to find answers. Also what I'm reading and watching. Come have a read...
Friends fallen out with one another, angry , scared,increasingly hurt by each other's feelings on war or genocide.
I'm sure we become desensitised by regular exposure to any kind of experience and I think that's the nature of humanity.
Throughout history those feelings are held somewhere deep and I think they come back to be processed. I think that we all carry the emotional damages of shared histories ..
It's something that I'm thinking about a lot but I'm no expert.
I often think about your friends situation ~ falling out over differences of opinion and beliefs ~ and want to write about how we need to learn to get on with people whose opinions aren’t the same as ours. Isn’t that what starts conflict? Being unable to see the other side and come to a resolution? Happy to be thinking about it all with you xx
I hear your ReRe. You’ve highlighted the challenge really beautifully. Social media makes it really hard these days to know what is real and what isn’t. I too don’t have any answers but the only thing I’m resolute about is making an effort to be a kinder human being every day to those I know and especially don’t know. With everything we’re all absorbing, experiencing and dealing with daily, it’s a wonder we can actually function sometimes. And I guess that’s where social media comes in. If you can create a curated world resembles something different to your reality, you can live vicariously through it and use second hand emotions to avoid the real ones. Sometimes it feels like we’ll wake up one day and realise social media and our access to unfiltered opinions and brain fudge was the worst experiment we ever conducted on ourselves. ... I love you and think you’re brave for putting your self out here. Lx
Thanks Li Li, what a great point about curating a world that’s different to our everyday. A world where we’re kinder and more successful and prettier and….
I really hope we do wake up from this bombardment of unfiltered opinions and talk over action. Love you too. Thanks for reading and supporting 😘
Friends fallen out with one another, angry , scared,increasingly hurt by each other's feelings on war or genocide.
I'm sure we become desensitised by regular exposure to any kind of experience and I think that's the nature of humanity.
Throughout history those feelings are held somewhere deep and I think they come back to be processed. I think that we all carry the emotional damages of shared histories ..
It's something that I'm thinking about a lot but I'm no expert.
Tim xx
I often think about your friends situation ~ falling out over differences of opinion and beliefs ~ and want to write about how we need to learn to get on with people whose opinions aren’t the same as ours. Isn’t that what starts conflict? Being unable to see the other side and come to a resolution? Happy to be thinking about it all with you xx
I hear your ReRe. You’ve highlighted the challenge really beautifully. Social media makes it really hard these days to know what is real and what isn’t. I too don’t have any answers but the only thing I’m resolute about is making an effort to be a kinder human being every day to those I know and especially don’t know. With everything we’re all absorbing, experiencing and dealing with daily, it’s a wonder we can actually function sometimes. And I guess that’s where social media comes in. If you can create a curated world resembles something different to your reality, you can live vicariously through it and use second hand emotions to avoid the real ones. Sometimes it feels like we’ll wake up one day and realise social media and our access to unfiltered opinions and brain fudge was the worst experiment we ever conducted on ourselves. ... I love you and think you’re brave for putting your self out here. Lx
Thanks Li Li, what a great point about curating a world that’s different to our everyday. A world where we’re kinder and more successful and prettier and….
I really hope we do wake up from this bombardment of unfiltered opinions and talk over action. Love you too. Thanks for reading and supporting 😘