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Facebook is really freakin’ me out

Cocoa Beach Pier old man surfer — Couple days ago at Cocoa Beach. We can easily drown in the sea of lifetime choices we are confronted with.

Facebook has really freaked me out this past year.

It’s unmanageable with the other commitments clamoring for attention in our lives; can’t keep up with all the activity. Does anyone else feel guilt, or struggle with this?

On Facebook, society at large presents their best foot forward, or their deepest grief. Do we try to keep up, daily, with hundreds of magic and tragic updates?

How often do active users have to look at their phones each day? And if it isn’t number of looks, then how much time is required, each day/week? And if we are just skimming, why? What’s the motive? To compare? To be rubberneckers on the highway of life?

What is this auto pilot reaction to “Like” so many things? i feel like i want to and that i should – it’s the friendly thing to do – but then i start wondering, “Do we post updates to see how many likes we can get, like some weird video game in pursuit of our high score?”

So yeah, pretty freaked out in 2015.

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What about those mothers?

Mickey and Minnie advent garde art — Motherhood can be art.

Big rush on Facebook yesterday for Mother’s Day.

Does anyone else get a surreal feeling while on Facebook? Facebook is really getting weird for me. It runs hot and cold. People tend to share their very best and their very worst, with a little plain vanilla.

What about the women who will never be Mothers?
What about the women who used to be Mothers, but no longer are?
What about the midlifer’s who grew up without a Mother?
What about those with Mothers they aren’t close to?

So, for everyone who was reminded that yesterday was Mother’s Day…

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
— Rudyard Kipling

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Walking where Walt walked (onstage and backstage)

Walt Disney Partners statue in fron of Sleeping Beauty Castle — Walt Disney Partners statue in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle

Walt Disney's Apartment above Disneyland's Fire Department on Main Street — Walt Disney’s Apartment above Disneyland’s Fire Department on Main Street

Mid Life Celebration book at Disneyland — If you can dream it you can do it. – Walt Disney

Walking where Walt walked (onstage and backstage) inspires many people to up their game.

Taking risks is risky.

So is playing it safe.

Our clocks are ticking.

Moving forward with Mid Life Celebration, it seems reasonable to double check our comfort zone.

Consider where we are and do one or both of these:

1. Un-Like Mid Life Celebration’s Facebook page if you’re more comfortable with status quo and playing it safe. Sincere best wishes to you in your life. (Being part of The Herd is a very safe place to be)
2. Ask any of your friends who want to suck the marrow out of life to Like this page. (Seriously, this is the headwaters of a movement)

The Movement is to fully embrace living like we mean it.

Amazing things are possible for each and every one of us, if we have someone who can show us the way.

Mid Life Celebration is that someone.

For example, a year from now we’ll wish we had started today.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

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Wonder-Filled Day

Casual events, planned events, they come and they go. Like the ocean tide. Never resting. Always predictable. And mostly, unnoticed.

A casual event on Twitter the other day – a fellow entrepreneur wrote a quick, deliberate note, and it’s still with me this morning. In fact I had to write it down but was unsure why.

Now I know, it’s because I’d like to share it with you. It’s very simple, but in this particular case, it’s very purposeful:

“Have a wonder-filled day”!

Older Women Need This?

Do you scan headlines for interesting, funny or important news? I do.

Yesterday, while scanning my Earthlink homepage, saw an article that caught my attention. Was on the run and didn’t have time to read it, but wanted to save it, because these headlines constantly change.

The article, Older Women Need One-Hour Workouts To Fend Off Flab, provided a button to post to Facebook, but not Twitter.

I sent it to Facebook to “save” it, to read later

Apparently, it caused a minor stir amongst some midlife folks.

It was no consolation when I suggested that older men have the same challenge.