Old friends

I had some emotional issues last year.

In an effort to eliminate a great deal of negativity from my life, I dumped a lot of the blogs I used to follow.  With the presidential election looming, many of them set aside their usual posts and spent a great deal of time on their political opinions.  Which they can do.  Fine.  It's a free country.

I thought the primaries were bad, but then came the declared candidates.
There was a lot of anger and finger pointing on both sides of the aisle.  Name-calling, flat out lying.
I couldn't find a blog without an opinion (and an angry one) about one candidate or another.
And the media.  (Yes.  I did take many of those posts personally.)
So, I figured I'd stop reading the angriest blogs until November.  Wait for some time to pass.  Let folks cool off, get their heads back on.  Get back to blogging about the things I started reading them for in the first place (like their kids, their crappy job, or how they dropped their earbuds in the toilet and after rinsing them off walked around for the rest of the day thinking "I'm a poopy-head").

Here we are a full year later.  Every once in a while I peek at some of those old blogs just to see how they're doing.
Most of them are still crazy-drunk-screaming-on-the-street-corner angry.

So, I think I did the right thing for me in letting them go.
*sigh*