Day: January 21, 2014

But I did manage to pick up a shiny new set of trial contact lenses.

“I CAN SEE!”

My eyes have been changing about every year, to year & a half, and that bites the big one.

It’s just another reminder that I’m getting old. As if looking in the mirror isn’t enough of a reminder!

I started the day pretty normally and then went to run just a couple of errands which turned into more errands and rapidly spun into a fur ball of stuff that I needed to get done but that took a lot longer than I thought it would.

No complaints, just one of those things that seems to happen with some frequency.

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Recently, I was having a conversation about the narcissism of Twitter. In point of fact all social media is about narcissism. I include blogging in that wide brush stroke as well.

After all who cares that you’re at a particular restaurant or store? Who really cares that you’re having a good or bad day aside, from perhaps your mother or spouse?

And lets be real, who really cares about your opinion?

Yeah, I’m sure that’s a somewhat sobering slap in the face to a lot of folks who claim to be “addicted” to social media.

Even knowing all this, we still cast our opinions and daily events onto the digital stream, for all the world to read and judge.

I still write blogs that people sometimes read. I still occasionally tweet my opinion out into the world.

Sometimes people find those blogs or comments funny and other times, not so much.

The point is none of us should be taking any of this social media stuff seriously. My opinions are like everyone else’s, plentiful and in the end, to be taken with a block of salt.

A little narcissistic introspection isn’t a bad thing.

Just remember to look critically at yourself when you look into the mirror.