Deleting Facebook

Looking over my old blogs, all four of them, I can really hear my younger voice. I haven't changed much in that I'm so very sincere that it's almost childlike. I want to express that part of me more, even if I don't have an audience. I just want to put it out there. Hence, this blog. I've begun the process of saving photos on my Facebook account so I can delete it. It's not social anymore, it's just a parade of memes and self-righteous people with Very Strong Opinions on the dumbest crap. I find myself scrolling on my smartphone for long stretches of time, just reading over what these people are posting, and it's gotten so old. I don't actually interact with my "friends" beyond Likes and short, superficial Comments. And most of the time I feel that they're obligatory. I don't keep people around me in the real world when they can't satisfy something in me. Why should I do it for those people on an internet platform, people I haven't seen in years, and people I won't ever see again in real life (or at least who I hope I won't ever see again in real life)? I did post my email and Skype info so people can still reach me if they want to. That post received mostly half-hearted comments telling me to stay. Nope.
So I'm going to keep this diary. I am growing up; I turned 35 this year. I feel more mature than I ever have; I feel like an adult. I have a desk job, I wear sunscreen daily, and I almost never drink til I'm drunk. I travel a lot, I have a 401k and health insurance, and I'm preparing Tristan for college (he starts high school in a week). These are all things adults do. I'm not grumpy though, and I haven't gotten very fat (just a little), and I have so many plans for my future. Mostly trips.
This September Travion and I are going to Jekyll Island, GA to camp for a weekend and go to the Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival, anyway it's called something like that. Then in October, Melinda and I are meeting in Las Vegas for a weekend to celebrate our 35th birthdays...as Tristan said, "We've begun to decline!"
I am looking forward to my "decline" because I am going into it with a lighter feeling of happiness on a continuing, daily basis, more than I ever have before. No medication necessary.