Natalie
2 min readJun 11, 2023

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Okay I'm back! LOL

I got carried away with my response...so because you asked that we come back and share, I'll post a portion of what I was sharing with Michael:

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I tried on "social media" (FB to be exact) to allow my bubble to stay as heterogeneous as possible, if I may use that word so that it would be balanced and have a healthy mix of both sides.

But then - one side is one of hate. And I tried - oh so hard, to just let them both be. But I noticed what it was doing to ME -- I noticed how it was affecting my view of THEM. And social media are these snip-its of sound bites that form a very small part of who we are and the lives we live. But I couldn't see that at the time, and my anger grew as I cannot tolerate injustice and hate -- I cannot tolerate judgment and hypocrisy.

So I actually did form a bubble by unfriending a few individuals - and it shocked me that I did that. But the truth is, hate begets hate. I didn't want to hate them...I didn't want to get angry at them anymore. And the social media platform was THE last place that was going to help us see one another as individuals with full lives and opinions and clearly - there are places where we do agree, but we were not going to discover it here.

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At that point, I was going to write an entire article myself! LOL - so I left it there.

Much love Henry - hope you've been doing well!

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Natalie
Natalie

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Wife, mother, teacher, people/music lover and writer: sharing bits of her soul one story at a time.

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