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hello online clarity community :rolleyes:

about a year ago i quit facebook for a while, then after about half a year got back in to confirm a friend’s birthday and just stayed there, rather inactive though, pretty much only using the chat to keep in touch with few people. break from social media gave me clarity and i managed to get rid of the unhealthy habit - randomly landing on the blue page and browsing through people’s lives for absolutely no reason… i noticed, that over time a lot of people also changed their relationship with the site, adjusted their privacy settings and generally seemed to have lost interest in constantly broadcasting their experience. even my mom, who initially felt scared to lose fb messenger as an easy way to communicate and share some things with me (never used it on the phone though), has finally distanced herself and spends much less time there.

i haven’t been posting for years, but as i come across certain videos, exciting articles or interesting information, i sometimes feel like sharing them with the world and obviously fb would most likely appear like the best place for it. yet any time this inclination arises i also start feeling dread at the very thought of participating in this world wide phenomenon of status updates…

so, what’s stopping me from posting on facebook? 64 > 63

i don’t remember getting a reading with all changing lines, and find this before and after completion pairing especially interesting. at the same time, it’s difficult for me to understand this answer.

i might dislike the interface and algorithms the site uses, how messy it is, how it poses threat to some of my less tech-savvy friends, some of whom maybe would have got catfished if i wasn’t asked to step in, but at the same time, when i returned to it i got contacted by a friend i haven’t heard from in almost a decade. we used to be best mates as 7-16 year olds and grew apart through high school, uni and grownup life. she never had fb, but has messenger on her phone, so initially, not knowing fb can make such connections, i thought i was being scammed for a phone number in a very weird and well thought out plot. eventually we did reconnect and met again, even though we live now in different countries, and are slowly rediscovering this friendship that apparently never ceased.

although i know the site is not inherently evil, i still don’t feel comfortable exhibiting some of my interests in front of all my fb contacts. i’m there for my „friends”, but having done some ecomm analytics as a job, i’m also aware of the importance of this medium in growing one’s business and advertising. maybe the reading points to some personal project i gotta take on, make a blog of some sort or create a bigger website and then start posting on its behalf, from another account?

64 - i’m not completely ready within myself yet, to step into the social media without it affecting me, i’m afraid that i’m like that little fox, who barely learned how to keep its mind and heart still, while the urge to post something might create a deep crack of doubt, getting fox’s tail wet again and thus all my efforts of consolidating some understanding or at least maintaining some state of mind (water into ice) become in vain?

63 - at the same time, even if i eventually reached out to people from the place of „inner order”, this expression of myself being already externalised and meeting the outside world would inevitably meet with confusion and doubt, as that’s how external world operates?

it seems the message here is, to meet the outside world from a place of internal harmony and stay aware of possibly cacophonic results, rather than haphazardly jump into it at every whim of the excited heart?

would be curious, if anyone survived this reading so far, to to know what are your overall thoughts on this and the hexagram pair?

privacy aside, how come i feel more comfortable posting on this forum? 12.2 > 6

i read line 2 as supporting surroundings that provide stability and safe place even for the inferior elements in ones psyche, in the context of resolving one’s inner conflicts (hex 6).
thank you for this space :)

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