Passport Adventure: When will people notice my social media updates have stopped?

While I was gone for two weeks in China, all social media engines that I was active on at the time were not updated. None at all. But who noticed? Who was really worried about the fact that Mylanda had stopped posting nonsense on her page? Who had the thought run across their mind that Mylanda out of all 500 of their friends and or followers (on facebook or twitter) did not post a selfie all week? I like to think that my posts mean something to somebody. I post motivational meme's so that hopefully someone will use that as the motivation they need to get through the day. I create pretty hair styles, hoping that someone will search on Pinterest and test it out. When I am up late at night with no one to talk to, I'll get on twitter and tweet about nonsense, but either way I use social media as an outlet. Whether I receive a like on a post or not, someone will see it. But it lead me to the question of: Who was really looking for my individual social media update? While I was gone for two weeks in Thailand and Africa or that one week in Italy I can tell you exactly who was looking. My mother, My sister, and my cousin. They were looking forward to me communicating with them through whatever outlet was possible. I'm pretty sure they would have been content with any type of communication, update, anything as long as they knew I was ok. They wanted me to check with them when I arrived in the country and when I was leaving. They questioned me about the places I was at and the places that I was headed. I am not saying that no one else cared but I will say out of sight out of mind. Your closest circle aren't your facebook friends. Your closest circle aren't just the friends that know about your life. Your closest circle are the ones who come check on you, or call you out of the blue just to make sure you are ok, or understand when you are doing things out of the ordinary just to hide from the fact of something else. They are not the people you have to communicate with on the daily basis. They are the people that you can catch up with after 6 months and re-glue all of the pieces of your lives back together. Some people get so trapped in the life of social media they forget the solid foundations of real friendship. One thing that I thought about constantly while I was in China was, If I get left here and I could not make it home, how many people would notice when my social media updates have stopped. How many people would text my number or send me a message just to check and see if I was still living? Who are the people that would click on my page just to see when I last posted a status?

We have images in our minds of this world being huge. I'm here to say from what I've experienced it's not. Don't get me wrong there are beautiful places, beautiful people, and beautiful things all over this Earth but the World to some is just a perception of their mind inverting what reality is and to others the World is creating possibilities where they once created doors.

The World is in fact what we make of it. Our perception changes as we are introduced to what lies outside of our perimeter of life. Actions, for me switched from me liking pictures of places I saw on Social Media to posting pictures of me there. My statements changed from "I want to go to the Great Wall of China" into "While I was there I stopped at the 2nd tier because I nauseous from the 20ft drop when I looked back after climbing the stairs." My thoughts changed from "This World is huge, to I've been around this World and back multiple times." During my trip in China, I discovered my life is not set on posting status' and updating people about my life. My life is focused on me living, having fun, and creating reasons to conquer a bucket list. A list of things I would like to do rather I was about to die or not. I started creating my bucket list like I wasn't going to make it to see the next year.

The truth is you don't have to be dying in order to kick the bucket.

So what if my social media updates were to stop? I could die tomorrow and they would stop. I could travel tomorrow and they would stop. My point is I'm sure the people who really care would find other outlets to check on me, but most of all they would want to know that I am happy and living my life to the fullest at every moment possible and living that type of life in particular would never need an update. (I hope you were not under the assumption that I will no longer use social media...*Checks Instagram*)