Anytime you scroll through your Facebook news feed, one or many of your friends are pissed off about something.  It doesn’t matter if it’s political or just a comment on something they saw that day; people use these soundboards and soundboards like it to express their feelings to the world.  The often do this to get consensus from others in their pursuit to be right. Some of you agree with and some make you want to unfriend them. Some you want to unfriend, but you secretly enjoy the drama.  Don’t lie!

You cannot be offended unless you want to be offended. Many of us walk around waiting for someone or something to set us off so that we can feel the emotion of anger. Not only feel it, but share it with everyone willing to read or listen.  People often want to have their own personal mob of people to agree with their feelings and help carry the “I’m offended and I want to be mad” torch.

At the end of the day, we are a generation of big sissy babies. In so many ways we are desensitized by the world. We are hardened and scarred by the bombardment of messages.  Yet, for everyone, there’s something (or a few things) that we just can’t get passed without making a comment about it.  We have to make a stink or act offended. For what?

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be passionate. The world needs healthy and passionate influencers. I’m just saying that some of us walk around locked and loaded, ready to be offended. “Oh please post a political meme so I can be mad at it”. Why?  There are those who post or say things in an attempt to engage with someone who will hopefully offend them. They want to be set off by something or flex their knowledge on a subject or topic in an attempt to convince everyone you know that your opinion is better and they just need to conform or risk attack and possibly, even worse, being “unlinked” on Facebook. Why?

I have friends and social media connections that stir the pot and I enjoy watching, regardless if I agree or disagree.  I don’t comment because I don’t really care to.  I read it. I process it. I move on. Honestly, I’d rather like a picture of your kids or your status about going to the gym, then to engage in a petty game of “one-upmanship” on your Facebook wall. I want to celebrate our differences and not try to convince you that you are wrong.  If we want to exchange words of disagreement or conflicting feelings, let’s do it on the phone or in person. If you are someone who cannot access me personally or on the phone, then do we really need to argue? I don’t surround myself with idiots, nor do I choose to argue with them.    

I want you to be different than me. I don’t want to surround myself with people that share all of the same ideas. When you read my blogs or my book, you should disagree with some of the things you read. It’s healthy to have a creative environment that allows different ideas and opinions to grow.  I don’t want to change you, I want to inspire you. Challenge ideas, don’t fight them. I don’t want to be sold or marketed to. I don’t need my buttons pushed for entertainment purposes. I don’t want to be pissed off. I just want to be inspired.

Inspire me.

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