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Originally Posted by JimOfferman  I don't see how your 'virtual' friends' lifestyles have any reflection on your own life. Do you have to choose to never go out because some or all of your online friends never see the light of day? Of course not!
You decide how to live your life - they decide how to live theirs. |
True. My aim is not to convince you of believing things are a certain way. Just explaining it from my perspective. Maybe this doesn't apply to you, but I would constantly look at my buddy list to see who was online and what they were doing. To the point where it would be unhealthy and one person jokingly accused me of stalking them. They didn't really like me in the first place. I would stay inside all day hoping that one of the 100+ people on my buddy list, only a few of which were geographically close to me would be interested in doing something social and not destructive in the process. Rarely did I find it.
Maybe I've mentioned it here before, but I have a tendency to overanalyze things. Like someone online stops talking to me all of a sudden and I will message them about it or writing in my old journal about the entire experience seeking feedback from others. I did that for years.
Perhaps this clarifies things a bit? It's one step closer to me being in balance.