Hey everyone I'm back to posting. I know it's been awhile since my last post (sometime in April I think) but I needed to take a blogging break. I also needed to get away from Twitter and Facebook. It was getting to a point where my social networking was getting to be busier than my actual physical networking. I was neglecting family and friends to update status, create new blog posts and just check in on what everybody else was doing. I seemed to know more about Paris and Perez Hilton than I did with my church family and that is sad. So I cut the ties, I stopped blogging (except for Bikers Church blog), stopped tweeting and checked Facebook only to see what my "real friends" were doing. This summer I rediscovered an interesting concept called popping over or, for some you, dropping by. For those of you who don't know how this works let me explain it to you: basically what you do is log off ALL SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES, shut your computer down, get out of the house, either get in a car or my bike and go to some one's place for no reason but just to say Hi. You will be amazed at what kind of conversations you can have with someone when you there without an agenda or for a specific reason.
Let's face it the weather in Eastern Canada was crap this year so I decided to make the best of it and reconnected with some family and friends. I made the effort, took the time and spent an awesome summer just hanging out. It was like getting to know people again. Life is too short to spend all your time wondering and worrying what everybody else thinks of you. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against social networking, I love blogging, Twitter and Facebook, I just don't want these to run my life. If I died today I wouldn't want to be known as the guy who had a million followers or 3000 friends but had only 12 people show up at the wake. I want to make an impact in people's lives, I want to be remembered as a guy who was always there for his family and friends and a guy who made the effort and cared.
So I encourage to log off and get to know people again. Be that person that makes a difference by being there and rediscover your friends. It may be hard to log off at first but it is totally worth it when you get to your buddy's place and you start remembering and reminiscing about old times.
Until next time
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