When I left major social media a few years back, my life started having considerably less bullshit in it and has been better because of it. I still have messenger because you have to if you want to be able to contact businesses, but other than that I have no photos of me on my pages and I haven't posted or commented anything in many years. It has freed up a lot of time for me to do things in life that truly matter, such as collecting memes off of 9gag.
I haven't been involved as much as I used to because once I got my reading glasses I started reading between sets in the gym instead of looking at 9gag. I find that ever looking at 9gag to be a waste of time as well, just not as much as FB or IG is.
Here are some of the ones that I have seen that affected me in some way over the past several weeks. Hopefully you enjoy them as well. You can steal them if you want to because they weren't mine to begin with.
This made me laugh because this is exactly me in video games and I think it says a lot about me as a person and how I don't really want to hurt other people's feeling ever. When given a choice to be a cunt to a stranger in a game I will almost always choose to be friendly. Some games have some sort of reputation that will be built in and the NPC might actually attack you if you are mean to them but that is not why I am polite. I am polite because I don't feel the need to be unnecessarily hurtful towards others even if they are a bunch of zeros and ones.
Before I moved overseas I had the movie-induced perception of the British being all prim and proper, dressed really nice with a sharp wit and desire to benefit the communities that they are involved in. As it turns out they are just as rude and uncouth as any other population in the world and this shouldn't be much of a surprise. I'm not saying that they are any worse than anyone else because that isn't the case at all. They are just as bad though, that is for sure.
The other day we were remarking about how in the expat community here in SE Asia it is actually very rare for someone to own a car. This is likely true for most people not in the expat community as well who live in Asia. However, back in USA basically everyone had to have a car. If you didn't have a car you better live in LA, Chicago, NYC or something like that because you gun be doin a lot of walking elsewise and taxis cost a fortune.
I do recall when I was in college with my piece of shit car that I would go and get oil changes and the mechanics would always tell me other problems that they found and I would do something like this. It isn't that I don't care, it's that I have a choice of either fixing my brakes or eating this month and well, I'd rather eat.
I suppose this technically isn't a meme but it hit my right in the feels. This is really the case with most dogs and the great tragedy with having a dog is normally only the very end of it that the dog doesn't even get to be witness to. This is something that I dread as time goes on and if Nadi (my dog) even starts to act a bit more tired than usual I feel like I need to take her to the vet. She gets treats all the time just for being alive and nothing else. We do a lot together but I always feel like I could be doing more.
If you have a dog or have had one, I am sure you can appreciate the message in the above cartoon because it is so true.
Sorry to leave you on a down note but that one impacted me a lot more than chats about oil changes, video games, or misconceptions about British people. :)