My Farewell to Twitter – PASSIONATE REASON
Months ago I received a letter from my sanity imploring me to go off Twitter. It was delivered first class, so it must have been an emergency. However, I wanted to stay on Twitter, so I just filed the letter away. In recent days, however, my sanity began
via PASSIONATE REASON: http://passionatereason.com/2017/01/my-farewell-to-twitter/
Playing the wrong game was turning me into someone I did not want to be: a petty, dependent validation hog. An embarrassing example: If someone did not like or retweet one of my tweets within three minutes after posting, my anxiety would skyrocket to the point that I would delete it and post something else instead. Or I would post at a different time. Trying to “please” Twitter followers became a compulsive, life-draining pursuit which violated my core philosophy of “Write what you love, not what you think others will like.”