Away from Facebook...

The social media is finally hitting our country by storm. Yeah so it took us a while to catch up with the rest of the world, but finally Facebook has hit Zanzibar...and everyone who is anyone is on it!!! Umbea mtupu!!!!

Facebook seems to have replaced people's need to really stay in touch, to talk to each other face to face, random "let's meet", or even texting and calling. All we do now is silently stalking everyone as a strategy to know whats going on in your friends life. As if that is all it takes, we have replaced the need for human connection to silently clicking on their updates, status, posts and other updates. 

I don't even want to go to the point where the random people add you ati because they liked your profile pic, I mean seriously roses are red, Facebook is blue, no mutual friends who the hell are you? or that random person from your previous school that you never actually talked to now wants to be your friend, or colleagues whom you may even dislike send you a friendship request. No thanks, its not a contest I don't want to have 5,000 friends and only know about 5 of them. What becomes the point? My point is IF you want to know someone for real, facebooking them should perhaps only be a start, not the only means to the end. 

Then there are birthdays!!!  That one day popularity you have on Facebook because its your birthday doesn't actually make you famous or that people really care; It's always someone's birthday on Facebook and we get that notification. You should really be grateful to people who actually remember your birthday without facebook.

Let me not even start on ugomvi na umbea that goes on kwa Facebook or stuff that become slandering and rumours because someone saw something, and then explained it and showed to someone else who then decided to embellish everything out of proportion whilst someone else is listening in with interest on issues that don't even concern them. Stop reading more into what people post than what there is, but eh if the shoe fits. Listen, you don't have to like me, I am not a Facebook status. You don't have to like what I write, and if you miss me? Stop poking me, and pick up the damn phone and call me, or better yet...come see me!!

So in light of everything I decided to give myself a break from Facebook  it was hard at first and it took  strength of character to break away from the habit; some people took a while to notice that I had de-activated my account and others didn't even notice. Eventually those who cared enough actually either called, texted, e-mailed or whatsapped me see where the hell am I and what's going on. The time away also served as a wake-up call for me to invest more in relationships I have now, to e-mail some friends, to set up Skype dates and not just stay impassively in touch yet really out of touch with people. I lasted for more than a month and I realised I didn't miss it that much and could go on for much longer, but strangely enough I needed the link it gave me to broadcast my blog more. I also came to appreciate more of all the people who take the time out to really be there for me...and I will put the effort to be there for them. I am back kwa Facebook but this time around without the manic need to constantly check what everyone is doing with their lives...I have developed a new infatuation now...with Twitter. 

Amazing Collage of Words

1. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

APPLE INC.

2. Life is never about the people who act true to our face. it is always about the people who remain true behind our back. ~Author Unknown

3. True friends are friends who are happy for you no matter what choices you make in life as long as they make you happy. ~Author Unknown

4. Procrastination is like masturbation.  At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself. ~ Unknown 

5. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.  ~Terry Pratchett

6. I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.  ~William Wiley

7. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings, 1955

8. Why try to be someone you're not?  Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.  ~Robert Brault

9. Not all those who wander are lost.  ~J.R.R. Tolkien

10. You have enemies?  Good.  That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.  ~Winston Churchill

11. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln

12. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! ~ Bob Marley

13. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.  Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.  ~Theodore Geisel

14. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.  ~Mark Twain

15. Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.  ~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

16. Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.  ~Bill Maher

17. Women get the last word in every argument.  Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.  ~Author Unknown

18. Saying goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn't what you want. ~Author Unknown

19. Was it possible? A round table could actually have a corner if you wanted it to? Just because people were living in this round world but constntly being pushed off its edges? ~ Tunumariya Yongolo

20. When you thought I wasn’t looking, You said a prayer And I believed there was a God that I could always talk to.

When you thought I wasn’t looking, I saw tears come from your eyes And I learned that sometimes things hurt—

But that it’s alright to cry.

When you thought I wasn’t looking, You smiled, And it made me want to look that pretty too.

When you thought I wasn’t looking, You cared, And I wanted to be everything I could be.

When you thought I wasn’t looking— I looked . . .

And wanted to say thanks, For all those things you did, When you thought I wasn’t looking. ~ Nouriyah Suleiman

21. We always say life is too short only when we are hit with a tragedy i.e. when we loose someone close. But we forget to keep the ones alive closer because of different avenues in life.. sometimes as human beings we lack da patience to understand @ other for watever reasons... it is in our own power to keep @other together don't wait until its too late to show/tell/express how much we mean to one another.. grudges are waste of emotions.

PS: WE dnt need Death to remind us we only humans and without realizing it we need each other and whether we love it o not we mean smfn to @ other....!!! ~ Halima Wagao