Honeybee's Buzz Bin

On Twitter, and in other Great Bastions of Social Media Significance, we tend to blather on, ad nauseum, about inconsequential, but seemingly important, minutiae.

Who’s spamming. Who’s using AutoDM. FollowFriday is clogging the stream. I hate typing in the captcha. And so on and so forth. Blah. Blah. Blah.

Don’t get me wrong … I’m right in the thick of things. Guilty. As. Charged. In fact, yesterday, I was mired in annoyance over some mindless piece of pedantic BS (whose topic has since ceased to have any importance to me at all) when I ran into one of my neighbors, and we started talking.

The subject of our chat knocked me flat.

The three-year-old son of one of our neighbors, and friends, is in the hospital in total renal failure. This sweet, fragile little boy is fighting, quite literally, for his life and may very well not make it. His brothers are beside themselves. His parents, positively grief-stricken.

And here I was, all bent out of shape about … Twitter?

I know that everything is relative. I know that, sometimes, those little niggly things SEEM important. But try not to lose sight of what’s real. Try to maintain perspective. Tell the people in your life that you love them. Tell them OFTEN.

Lighten up.

From “The Sure Thing”: Have some fun! Yes, sleep when you feel like it, not when you think you should. Eat food that is bad for you - at least once in a while. Have conversations with people whose clothes are not color coordinated. Make love in a hammock!

Don’t lose sight of what’s important.