So I did it. I deleted facebook. It was really very un-monumentous and was fairly depressing to realise how many people I am acquainted with that I don't spend anytime with or even think about very often. In general I could pretty much write off most of the people as lovely, but not close enough to warrant caring about 131 photos of their trip to Las Vegas (consisting of pictures of them drinking different coloured drinks and then, wait for it, the drinks BY THEMSELVES!). It's not that I am not very happy for my brothers best mates wife's sister who has just found out she's pregnant, it's more that it feels strange knowing details first hand when I have met the woman ONCE!
So I am no longer on the facebook bandwagon, and to my absolute lack of shock no one really cares, which gets me thinking, how much we think about others, and I'm not talking about the whole lets save each other and be good caring people but rather, more selfishly, how this is a thought worth remembering.
How many times I have not done something for fear that someone would look on it badly and now I realise they probably wouldn't have given a damn. Which is quite refreshing when you think about it. Thats not to say that the day I fell face first on the treadmill a lot of people (90% of the gym) didn't stop and look, but rather that laughing at me probably wasn't the highlight of their day (and if it was that's probably more their problem then my own...).
There is something nice in realising how insignificant you are in the world, makes it easier to get on with things and just bob along. Since realising this fact, I've been testing it using my new toy twitter. It's fun to direct comments to people and then never hear a response, in fact the best thing is to make a comment and then leave it for a few days and then delete it. It only illustrates how little influence we have on anybody else's world and it's even better when someone inadvertedly replies, seems to have a little bit more meaning somehow. Kind of like when you ask a question in a crowded conversation and you think no one's heard and then someone leans over to answer it.

So blah blah blah, that is all I have to say really, that and to apologise for my ranty-mc rant rant previous blog. Oh and also to announce the swim in the baths challenge, where by I have to swim in the baths, preferably in winter in the morning. No brain, no pain, so I should be fine......