Read on Twitter
I shouldn& #39;t admit this, but sometimes I unfollow people because they share too many experiences that give me painful memories. Ex. Excessive sharing of how you& #39;re privileged in ways I feel esp. not, or complaining about the problems of specific situations I wish I could be in.
I guess I& #39;m tweeting about this topic because I wonder how many others end up feeling that way from Twitter.
I realize I may have unfollowed some people who meant well because I didn& #39;t have strong enough compartmentalization skills, and ideally I need to develop those. I hope those people haven& #39;t wondered if it was due to some kind of more direct and justifiable non-existent grievance.
(I guess a lot of these issues are really what muting is for, and I do plenty of that too.)
I guess another way of saying all this is that I& #39;ve unfollowed and/or decided to not initially follow some people whom I& #39;d still potentially be open to connecting with, in other ways or maybe even by following/re-following at some point in the future.
I think it& #39;s probably relatively healthy to start trying to have open conversations about these kinds of feelings and impulses, since a lot of times the experience of being unfollowed involves trying to interpret a mysterious and arbitrary sign.
I& #39;d add that the conditions for the kinds of memories I& #39;m thinking of are narrow & specific. I don& #39;t like how this thread implies I& #39;m some kind of overly-sensitive person; I would argue I& #39;m discussing emotions which occur among many people who assume they& #39;re above having them.
