A couple of months ago, I made a decision to limit my social media engagement. I wanted to focus on working on some personal projects, but I had also grown tired of engaging in frivolous activities. I was tired of the gossip, tired of the narcissists and grown folks behaving like children. I was also tired of the tragedies that flooded my newsfeed–murders, accidents, suicides, robberies, and sexual violence in all forms; it was difficult having such darkness penetrating my psyche constantly.
There was a period when one of the first things I did in the morning was check social media. Often, the first news I would become aware of was some kind of tragedy. After introspection, I concluded that for the sake of my