the real reasons:
i left facebook.
don't do pinterest.
i don't even understand twitter.

let's start with facebook.  i left because it felt fake to me.  it wasn't authentic anymore.  my personality desires true and rich relationships.  i was jipping myself and my most precious loved ones.  the way i interacted with my beloveds were becoming strange, and distant.  and to put it simply i wanted more and i wanted to give more.

the first week i left it felt freeing.  the second week, people were asking me where i was.  the third week i felt bad for leaving all my friends, and that was when i knew i did the right thing.  i picked up a pen and wrote love letters to friends, and picked the phone up and talked for hours.  i made coffee dates, i made play dates,  i made the right choice for me.  christmas cards this year doubled, and so did my heart to love the ones that i was missing in a real way.  i was loving my friends in a tangible way.  i was giving to them.  just by physically being there!  such a concept right?

pinterest.  i loathe you.  you make my life seem miserable, my wardrobe depressing, my house is ugly, and small, and not cute.  the food i eat is bland, and it isn't served pretty.  i don't get to light my own creative fire, no, i am copying someone else.  i found myself not enjoying anything i have been blessed with and i was coveting what everyone had, and what every image was.  it was making me miserable, and fine tuning my heart really needed to take place.  it was exhausting for me to look at images of perfection and know that i can't obtain it.  for lack of finances, creativity, life paths, choices. it was wearing me down, and fast, and in a bad way.  so i deleted that too.  and let me tell ya, i felt peacefulness right away.

i have noticed that sometimes in life you have to purge.  get rid of unnecessary evils that can rob you from great joy, organic and free.  and this social media was robbing me.  so in place of these things that were wearing me down, i knew they needed to be replaced.  i dove into some great books, i read the one and true book, i made time to be creative, and journaling has become a regular occurrence again.

i like to call this movement:
PURGE AND SURGE
which means in my linnea world:
to get rid of, and to move onward and upward.

may all your purging and surging be life changing.

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