If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

I've been hesitant to use this quote because it seems kind of rude but the past two weeks have proven it to be perfect.  A lot of people I know have been so concerned with people or events that have no affect at all on their lives, yet they are emotionally affected by them.  Why?

Why would you let the actions or the laws of a state or country far away from you, that have no affect on your life at all, put you in a bad mood?  Why is it so important that your negative opinion be known when someone in a city far from your own did something that you don't like.  Seriously, that person is not concerned with you, why be concerned with them?

It's interesting to me, how as a society we are so concerned with everyone else.  And I'm not talking about international affairs, I'm talking about letting the actions of one person you don't even know affect you emotionally.  I mean have you seen social media the past two weeks?  Heaven forbid you disagree with anything anyone posted.  A lot of the posts begin with "Unfriend me if you disagree" which I'm sorry makes you just as much of a bigot because you're throwing your own opinion in everyone else's face without allowing them to have a conversation with you.  Why post anything if you don't want people to respond?  The thing I love about the people I'm close to is that we don't all think the same but we agree on what matters.  We all love each other and have respect for each others' opinions.    

I haven't posted a lot about recent events on my social media because my thoughts and opinions are not important.  None of the recent events affect me or my life personally and I choose to not open myself to unwanted hate from people who don't know me.  People are ugly, hateful and rude on all sides of the debates.  It's sad.  It's sad that people will ruin friendships and relationships because they think differently than someone else.  Why are we so immature that a healthy debate severs ties instead of broadening our own thinking like it's supposed to?  Why are we so dramatic? 

I guess it's interesting to me because I am in the entertainment industry.  As an actress, the goal is to continue working.  You continue working by being in the public eye.  Once people stop caring about you, you're irrelevant and the struggle to be seen starts all over again.  Actors really have no lives separate from their jobs because people always want to see them.  So we have to make sure that you always see us the way we want you to see us.  So in that sense, I really don't get to have an opinion about anything.  Because one day, when I'm on my own show someone will look back at my Facebook from 2015 and say that I said "..." about "..." and my career is over.  Not really but I could lose a lot of my future fans by what I post now.  It's crazy but it's true.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just be ourselves and love each other for who we are?  Wouldn't it be great if we were more concerned with our own lives progressing instead of constantly worrying about what someone else is doing?  I think we'd all be a lot happier and the world WOULD go around a great deal faster than it does.  

Just a thought.
Love,
Kimberly