One of my peripheral friends (we used to work together years ago but were never particularly close) posted something on fb the other day that triggered me badly. It was politically related so I won't put what it was about here, but it reflected extremely black & white thinking and the world I live in is filled with shades of gray which I believe all need to be considered. Her post was very shaming and blaming of a particular, well, "shade of gray" shall we say, and it made me so angry that I was shaking inside, I responded thusly, unfriended her, and then did my own post letting my friends know that I was taking a Facebook hiatus and why. Facebook now feels like a very, very unsafe place. Which is sad, because I have enjoyed a couple of different Facebook groups and keeping up with old friends there. Oh, well. Maybe it's time to cut ties with all of it and simply move forward boldly into my future and continue working on myself and forming new, healthier relationships. I wish I could talk with you about all of this, L. Gosh I miss you still.

p.s. And I think you'd be proud of me, I am not logging back into Facebook to apologize for what I said just because I think I should. I am NOT sorry, so I am not going to put on appearances that I am just because I think I "should". I wrote a poem about it trying to channel my anger in a creative way.