I have
been meaning to write this for what seems like forever and something that
happened earlier this week heightened my determination.
A tweep
(person with a twitter account) shared a blog post with grammatical errors that
would make it to the Guiness book of records and more capital letters than I
have seen in one piece of material. Being twitter, of course people gave their
opinions with some telling the young man to take it down and promise NEVER to
repeat such madness while others cheered him on with encouragement of brighter
days ahead.
Kermit
the frog recently hit the timeline with his tagline ‘but that’s none of my
business’ and his memes were everywhere. Literally. Long story short, many were
attacked for giving their opinions on the blog while others used Kermit as a
scapegoat since he is one to muddle in people’s business and throw his tagline
as a disclaimer which is where this lesson comes in handy.
The Pearl
‘I don’t care’ theory states that if you share your views, for lack of a better
word which includes but is not limited to tweets, pictures, blog posts, you
automatically lose the right to use ‘I don’t care’ as a response when opinions
that conflict with your views are given.
One of my
heartbeats has been going through a lot in terms of whom he is and what he
wants versus what people in his life expect from him. This has been an on going
discussion and at one point he said he didn’t care what anyone thought and
would live his life as he saw fit.
Another
person I know always shares aspects of his life on social media and from time to
time one meets people from the virtual world. The nice people are excited to meet
him because finally they are able to put a face and voice to an account they
follow. Poor chap might ask how his puppy is fairing after the illness that
said person advertised on the timeline and then goes on to blame the people for
forcing themselves into his life. Unfortunately there is always a poor soul if
not me that has to listen to these rants and all of this could very easily have
been avoided.
Each time
someone shares something; there is implied permission for opinions of others and
to even pretend otherwise makes said person a fool, an idiot or both. If really
you do not care, then go the whole way and not care enough to not share ya
things. There’s a twist though, if others can not give opinions on ya things,
then you can not give your opinions on topics that concern them.
Basically
if you are going to go around shouting how much you do not care, then you are
an island. Do not try to cross the waters otherwise take a seat and admit that
you care, I am tired of this nonsense.