My Journey With Health And Fitness – How Did We Get Here

Well we are getting through the closets in the condo and it is going much quicker than I thought. We are moving on to our pantry tomorrow and it might takes some time because it is quite full of all sorts of things. However, I am fairly confident that I will still have some time in the afternoon to get on my pool floatie and spend some time reading in the sun. The weather is supposed to be nice and I just haven’t done enough of being on the water.

I have gotten to the point that I just don’t understand how we got here. I’m talking about all the lies, vitrol and out and out racism that we are now seeing in society spread mainly by social media. We seem to be doing the if I post it on X/Facebook/Instagram or whatever then what I am saying must be true. Worese because you can often do it anonymously that seems to give people the absolute courage to be vile. It almost makes me cry that this is the society that we have become.

A few days ago a sitting BC MLA (she sits as an independant) posted that our Prime Minister should declare ANTIFA a terrorist organization (she also seems to be a residential school denier). I thought wait, ANTIFA is a movement, not an organization. Hell, I’m ANTIFA because I don’t agree with facism. My Dad was absolutely ANTIFA because he was a veteran of WWII and came home with both the physical and emotional injuries to prove it. Seriously, he should have been declared a terrorist? Sadly there were so many responses supporting this that I was taken aback.

I belong to a couple community groups on Facebook for the area where we live. Often times people will ask for advice or have questions about the community. The responses sometimes just make me feel ill as people spew complete hatred and quite frankly for no reason. Someone asking a question should be spat upon by social media? Why, what the hell motivates you to do this? The ones that really anger me are the ones who are anonymous which I don’t think should be allowed. Fortunately one of the groups has awesome administrators who will shut the feed down as soon as they realize what is going on (and then the haters have a tantrum because they can’t post more hate). The other one not so much and it becomes a free for all of the vitrol by some people.

I also belong to some, what should be, friendly pet pages such as My Orange Cat is a Little Shit (if you have had an orange cat you will understand). One of the group members asked for assistance because she was going away for a few days and should she send her cat to her ex with her dog or would it be better to leave the cat at home and have someone check on it daily. Now I responded positively telling her what we do the once a year we leave our cats home alone for a few day. Others did not respond well calling her names and telling her that her pets should be taken away from her. What the hell? This is supposed to be a fun page where we do things like share the antics of our orange cats and help each other out. How is it acceptable to treat someone like this over trying to do the best thing for her cat?

And the worst of course is X. I cannot believe the number of posts where people openly admit they are racists and are proud of it. I am also disguted by the return of the slur, retard. When did it become ok again to use that? Oh and god forbid that you post anything political that isn’t part of a right wing agenda. The comments become almost violent because you have a political opinion that doesn’t match someone elses. Where did the concept of while I disagree with your opinion but I respect your right to have one go?

Yes I know, I could just stay away from social media but you know what, that makes things almost problematic when I am at the condo. The positive part of social media is that you can use it almost anywhere and it can help you keep in contact with your communties. However, I am concerned that the negative aspects are taking over.

So I ask again, how did we get here? While I do know some of the answers, I don’t know all of them. I’ve decided I will keep doing what I am doing which is mainly helping people with their pets and posting awesome pictures of my pets. Having said that I will still refuse to be a bystander when I see someone abusing another person online. I think if we all started doing that maybe, just maybe, some of this would tone down.