Flushing out Negative Energy

My first post in April! Excellent.

The word "blog" kept being thrown around in class today, and I had this sudden urge to blog, naturally. A self identified blogger since the age of 13? It would only be natural and normal for me to answer the call to blog.

That said...

yes, the title of this post is "Flushing Out Negative Energy"

That's what I've been working on of late.

Flushing out negative energy takes many forms. Let's take a superficial, yet very easy example - Facebook.

When people "friend" you on Facebook, I feel that we are all compelled accept the friendship regardless of how much time we've actually spent with this person. I know in the beginning of my Facebook days, and this is before all those applications began springing up and you could graffiti someone's website or play scrabble with each others, I 'friended' and accepted friendship regardless of how much I knew the person. Now looking back, it only makes me feel incredibly silly.

So this is what I've been working on.

Whenever I stumble upon my friends list on Facebook, and I see someone that I either a.) Don't know very well b.) never talk to c.) have negative memories with d.) feel lousy after interacting with their virtual representation or real tangible being or e.) just don't plain like, I "remove" them from my friends. It's as easy as that.

This way, news-feed won't display their name whenever he or she does something.

Yes, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch. That said, however, if I don't ever interact with them anyways, do I really need to see their daily musings on Facebook? I don't think so.

And yes, many might argue, it's only Facebook. Does it really matter if you're friends with these people or not?

Well, simple answer, yes.

If their name, their picture, their posts, essentially ANYTHING about them has some sort of negative influence on me in any sort of way, they are not going to contribute to the positive growing that I am in the process of doing. Thus, if you aren't positive fuel in my journey to better understand myself and to become a better person, then it's simple - bye.

Other ways to get rid of negative energy:
- take down photos of people you don't necessarily feel a strong positive personal attachment to.
- don't discuss issues that won't mentally fuel or progress you - aka. don't gossip.
- delete those people from your AIM list that you don't talk to or always try to do your best to get out of the conversation with.

It's as easy as that.

until next time.

C:)