There comes a time and point in your life when you are hit with a realization. That realization point reaches when everything/everyone that made you who you are at this present time and point is at a breaking point.
What am I referring to? Social Media.
I am consumed with it, live it, breath it, eat it, sleep with it…..the insanity goes on…..
Yes, I was a daddy blogger, yes I was on twitter, yes I was on facebook. No longer. No more. It has taken away from me what I love and cherish the most, my family.
Yes, I am admitting this is an issue. I have no problems admitting to it.
I arrived in the blogging world with my son, Lil Boo. Who would not love to hear the trials and tribulations of raising a child from a dad’s perspective? Seriously, pure gold! I mean poop, literally. There were not that many dad bloggers to be found, in fact you could quite possibly count them on two hands. I arrived on twitter with @OddBlast (no longer) when twitter first arrived. I transitioned to @PeasandBananas taking up the parenting aspect of social media and accumulating a mass following of friends/followers. It was insane, intense and simply put I was getting to big for my own good. I lost focus. I wanted more! I wrote a children’s book, based on my son, Lil Boo. I grew even more!
Do you see the issue? Notice the use of ‘I’.
Peas and Bananas was not about ‘I’. It was about Lil Boo and the ‘trials and tribulations’ associated with that. This is what made PnB.
Where is all this leading to?
Simply put, I am leaving the blog world, leaving twitter, leaving facebook. Yes, for good. Social Media and myself do not mix well. My family is first. They are what make me great. Without my wife, the Mrs. I am not a great husband. Without Lil Boo, I am not a great dad. How is this a super family life if they do no exist? How am I to put on a facade in the social media world that life is just peachy and hunky dory wonderful? When everything around me is crumbling, by my own doing?
I think you catch my drift….
The Peas and Bananas site will remain up, it will however change over into a static page, offering the first book, and perhaps someday if life has it, additional writings by yours truly of life with Lil Boo.
It has been a blast…odd at that. I have made some wonderful friends, and lack there of. I met some wonderful people, of whom I am ever so glad to have met. I could go on and on. However it may be, I will not. I am going back to focusing on what is most important to me, my family.
With that said, I bid you farewell, one and all….and remember -
Welcome to the YOB Years! Where all you need is a BIG Hug!
Peas Out!
~daddy b.
