Un-Plug… 🔌

Sometimes u just need a break.

Sometimes u have to silence the noise to ensure the well-being of your mental state: block, delete, unfollow, unfriend, deactivate or unplug!

It’s perfectly ok to make yourself a priority and u don’t have to ask for permission to do so!

Blocking prevents yourself from the bullshxt; unwanted attention and unnecessary energy. Deleting, Unfollowing or Unfriending is a conscious effort to be at peace without the presence of someone, taking them outta your world… Deactivating and Unplugging is being at peace taking yourself outta the world of others!

Many reasons for any of those actions to take place, but the common denominator is that they're all a form of self-preservation… protecting ourselves! When I tell you just how important that is… I do it often, hell I just did it recently!

Listen… taking a social media hiatus is soooo necessary! At first it can cause anxiety because you’re disrupting your routine, but then it becomes refreshing as your sense of normalcy changes! It’s like you navigate yourself through a series of steps of coping, a process of adapting. When u do resurface you’re normally more in tune with maintaining that balance of peace, being mindful of what u ingest sort to say… well I mean I can’t speak for everybody else but I can def speak for myself.

The world can often times be overwhelming with the wrong things and it was just becoming too much for me. Between the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, the coronavirus superpowers, the mistreatment of black folk, the mistreatment of gay folk and my profound disgust with humanity, their trifling behaviors, lack of morals and integrity… I just needed a fxckin break!

During my break I ultimately decided to finally finish my blog… a project I just never seen through to the end! I figured that I’d take advantage of this alone time and pour myself into myself… I needed that!

While absent, I was contacted by quite a few people and most of their messages reflected one another. They told me how they realized that they weren't seeing me in their newsfeed and wanted to check on me to make sure everything was alrite cause them and their timelines missed me... That was refreshing... to know that I've made such an impact on people that they actually sought me out... a reoccurring theme in my life! I'm normally present because I understand that my walk in life inspires and empowers... and I'm extremely out-spoken cause there's a lot of shxt that I be wanting to vocalize. I wasn't always aware of how much me jus being me helped tho until folk started sharing. Unbeknownst to myself I've even helped people out of depressions. Now that's power... something I will not take lightly nor for granted!

We’re literally in control of what we subject ourselves to and what we exude... and alotta folk are jus simply attracted to dysfunction and disruption… hell some feed off of it! Think of all those minions that be in the comments sections of social media spewing negative rhetoric on a consistent basis! They be feeling real empowered by their trash ass behaviors and so do so many others… but it’s like WHY??? Why would u want to disturb the peace in such a way by being a vehicle of destruction? WHY??? Why make the conscious effort to be the problem as opposed to the solution? WHY??? Why contribute to the detriment of society as opposed to being its' building blocks of success? WHY???

The answers can be as simple as "because they want to." Choices, we all have them... Decisions, we all make them... There's a psychology behind how we operate and it's up to us to figure out why, and if need be correct ourselves and be proactive about reformative measures concerning change... No one's perfect and that's a fact, but imperfections are what has led to an insane amount of hurt, trauma an unresolved issues... Take charge of your life and take accountability for what it produces.

There was this quote I remember hearing on a tv show saying “if the world doesn’t adapt to u then u adapt to it.” Sometimes that adaption may require u to unplug... to create the necessary space to figure out exactly how to maintain your peace amongst the chaos!I don’t normally backtrack and I don’t pressure myself to catch up on what I missed... I just pick up from wherever I am and keep it moving!