Recently, a person who I was friends with on Facebook posted a status that said this: "In all honesty I've been posting a lot of controversial stuff recently because I have over 800 friends and that has to change. I'm just too lazy to go through them all and unfriend the ones I don't talk to anymore haha. So if you're offended then by all means unfriend me. I'm looking to declutter my life of those with closed minds."
Although I thought it was an interesting post, I just kept scrolling and didn't think much of it over the next few days. She has different opinions than I do and has always posted things I don't necessarily agree with but that doesn't mean I don't like her or anything. I just don't read the articles she posts if I don't like the sound of them. I don't even get on Facebook all that often anymore so I really didn't think I would ever even notice what she was posting. But then last night when I logged in, she had posted a picture with a caption on it. A very vulgar caption. The meaning of the caption itself was, again, something I didn't agree with. Which wasn't the problem. The problem was the glaring vulgarity of the language used. So I went to her page and scrolled to see just what she had been posting. Most of the statuses in the last couple of days were along the same lines. I went back to looking through my news feed but it just kept bothering me. I didn't want to unfriend her, because that meant I was close-minded right?
Then I realized something that to me was very profound: if she considers using vulgar language as being open-minded, then I don't really care to be. I have a small baby. One day he is going to get big and be able to read. Do I really want him to be scrolling through my Facebook and come across something that has numerous ugly words and meanings? Absolutely not. And beyond that, I believe that if we surround ourselves with words and actions that aren't good, then we will eventually become desensitized and those words and actions might one day become our own. I don't want that to happen to me. I want to stay positive and happy. I don't think I'm close-minded, I think I am logical and choosy about what I let in my life. And if someone else thinks I am close-minded because I choose not to read some things or agree with some things, then I am perfectly ok with being that way. In fact, I am happy to be "close-minded". This life is too short to let ugly things be in our minds, hearts, and lives. Someone is always going to think you are close-minded. Don't let them bother you because there are millions of other people around who think you are completely open-minded. It doesn't mean you don't like those who don't agree with you, it just means that we are all different.
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So fill your life with whatever is important to you. Be choosy and be happy. I choose positive, Christ centered messages.
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-Megan
