i see a lot of people just scroll down their Facebook home page/ status feed screen or whatever you call it. i see people read all the way down to the bottom of it to see what EVERYONE is up to.
i guess i've just never taken the time to do that. i may notice the 1st 1 or 2 in my feed but not usually beyond that. maybe i'm just too ADD to make it beyond that.
just now i randomly decided to scroll all the way through my feed. it's pretty fascinating.
i saw...
- lots of funny stuff of course
- someone posted their 1st ultrasound of their teeny tiny baby in the womb!
- someone else is 20 weeks pregnant with a belly pic... halfway there
- and another person posted a pic of their beautiful newborn
- someone is enjoying snuggling with a brand new adopted baby after a long journey to have/adopt a child
- someone else is just beginning that long journey of the adoption process
- someone is mourning the loss of a husband after 13 weeks without him and without a father for her children
- while someone else is celebrating a wedding anniversary today with her husband
- someone training for a marathon
- somebody talking about Anderson Cooper being gay
- someone celebrating 4.5 years of the "hardest" but "best" decision of their life = to quit smoking
- somebody losing weight
and a whole lot of other stuff.
and no, i actually never made it to the bottom of the feed. that's just way too long. sorry.
but it was a crazy experience to read as far as i did. just look at those few things going on in peoples' lives.
i couldn't help but think that these Facebook status feeds are basically a microcosm of what's going on all around the world right now.
pain. relief.
joy. sorrow.
funny. sad.
random.
life ending. life beginning.
random.
and everything in between.
i'm sure there are some deeper thoughts not quite falling out of my brain just yet.
for now, i'm fascinated by a Facebook status feed being a sampling or microcosm of the emotions and experiences of almost 7 billion peeps on the planet...
never thought of it this way before.
but i might just start.
