On Saturday, August 13th, I had a chance to sit down and communicate with an individual. There were a lot of things that I noticed. One thing that I noticed was that I did not once grab my phone during our conversation and browse through Facebook posts! One thing that was bought to my attention is how I tend to say "we" a lot when answering questions that are being directed to me and predominantly about me. The word "we" was articulated more than the word " I ". I've done this on social platforms before when I posted content in the past, such as status messages. A lot of the content that I expressed would be directed to the general public rather than towards or about me personally.One day, I changed my mind, and informed myself that I'm going to "lessen the volume" on saying "we" a lot to, rather, saying things or posting content that is about myself. You know.... I found this very difficult to sit down, and think of content that I can post to social media that is about myself because of being so used to posting arbitrary content that is directed to the general public about the general public. This, right here, taught me one thing about myself.... is that I was, from a certain perspective, disconnected from myself in relation to my personal narrative.... Of course, I have had experiences in my life, but a lot of my focus throughout my life has been on the world, and how to get the world to see something, or to recognize something rather than sharing my personal narrative, and the content within my own narrative that I can offer to the world.
So therefore, posting content about myself allows me to shift my focus back to myself, and this is where intimacy is developed. Intimacy is not just these romantic feelings that emerge when interacting with someone. Yes, that is a form of intimacy, but there are other forms of intimacy, and another form of intimacy is being able to see into me, and project that insight to the outside world. So that is where I am right now -- learning how to see into me so intimately that it becomes a natural outward expression.
And to me, that is what it means to give back to the world in an authentic way. Because yes, I can give back to the world a bunch of knowledge about something arbitrary, and there is nothing wrong with sharing knowledge, but man, I think there is so much more depth in reading or watching content when you got the chance to live the story that's being shared.
