This is my current source of bile, and I suppose this is the only place where I dare say it... people on Facebook going on and on about how wonderful their days were, and how much they appreciate everything and everybody in their lives.
What could possibly be wrong with that you say? Well, appreciation is great. We appreciate others and life in general far too little. I've realized, though, that trumpeting that appreciation of happiness from the mountaintop, as done almost non-stop on Facebook, is not only unnecessary (private expressions of appreciation to individuals being enough), but if done in the presence of others with big, intractible problems, can come across almost as gloating. It's not intentional, but everyone shouting on Facebook about how happy they are to be smelling a flower or eating an Egg McMuffin is really over-doing it. I KNOW people don't stop and smell the roses enough, but on Facebook they're doing it too much. It does seem as if they're rubbing our noses in it....
It's this TV-era attitude that nothing's real unless it happens on a screen, in public. Suffering's not real unless you go on a daytime talk show and weep on camera. And maybe God or fate watches us on Facebook, and marks it in a ledger, if we're not registering our true appreciation of the blessings of life.
I'm suffering from positivism overload.
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