I’ve never been the kind of techie who likes to take things apart.
My propeller doesn’t spin that way. I just don’t seem to learn that much from disassembling things and I always end up with a pile of something that used to work and now doesn’t.
But I am all over any project that involves putting things together from scratch. Freshly opened box full of shiny new components. An instruction manual, preferably with a quick start guide! Heaven.
Maybe that’s why social media like Facebook and Twitter are so compelling to me. They are the technological archetypes of putting things (us!) together. We are the components. But there really is no manual, despite what some experts might say.
From my experience and observation, there is only one transcendental rule of social media: be yourself.
Be your essential self.
Be the you who:
- picked out the ugliest glasses as a kid
- sings along with the radio until people beg you to quit
- likes sweet and salty
- says no unless it’s a yes
- laughs until she cries and then laughs some more
Be who you need to be.
When you are true to yourself, you will connect with other true souls. And isn’t that why we’re really here? On this planet, in this life? To connect and maybe even do something collectively, connectively remarkable?
These online systems place the tools, literally at our fingertips, to forge and sustain relationships, independent of time and space. Though we often take it for granted, the power of such relationships is almost hard to imagine. You never know what one kind tweet could do for someone. Especially when it comes from the core of the essential you.
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Who is the you that you need to be? I’d like to know you at the core.
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p.s. I dropped your name on Gina's post, Barb. ;)
thank you so much Lisa, that helps a lot. I know he tried to blame me for so much stuff, but like I told all of his family and mine none of that added up to a divorce. I do realize it's his needs, it just hurts so bad to think how many years he's
I am a happy/depressed…creative/scatterbrained..funny/morbid…loving/overloving (Jewish Mother syndrome) human being!! One thing I am not is BORING!! p.s. Welcome to my “core”
Did a personlitity test and I am a jelly bean, blue and I fit into any situation easily, keeping things moving. I like that…TRACK