{"id":3178,"date":"2013-09-28T13:21:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T20:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2013-09-28T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T20:21:41","slug":"checkmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Block\"<\/a>Remember when blocking someone meant you were playing a game of chess?<\/p>\n

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To Friend or Unfriend THAT is the question. \u00a0 If Shakespeare was alive today he would have The Taming of the Social Network Shrew available on kindle.\u00a0 The soil of our internet community is so fertile for dark comedy. \u00a0And you have to laugh at it. \u00a0You do. \u00a0If not Life becomes a trilogy of epic tragedy.<\/p>\n

We have the power to add or delete people with so much ease that at times we do so accidentally, only to spend the better part of a day trying to figure out WHO we kicked off the Island.\u00a0 We can prohibit comments, limit access to our wall (poignant metaphor), and all together block someone from our go-daddy domain of quips, pics and potshots.<\/p>\n

Now you see me. \u00a0 Now you don’t. \u00a0 It can be a very mean game of hide and seek. \u00a0 Or poke and peek.\u00a0 For some I suspect, it s a matter of\u00a0 perceived control. \u00a0When we feel so out of control for so many things in our life … the ability to make someone disappear can appear quite powerful. \u00a0 While others no doubt move their pawn to block a perceived opponent’s rook because they need to protect themselves in some way shape or forum.\u00a0 And I do not claim that the latter is any better than the former motivation.\u00a0 No judgement.\u00a0 No just cause.\u00a0 Simply observation, as clueless as that may be at times.<\/p>\n

I like to believe that my practice of loving kindness allows me to cast a wide net of acceptance.\u00a0 And so I have people in my close circle of friends-I’ve-never-met, that have vastly different beliefs, values and lifestyles.\u00a0 For the most part we all get-along — which means they are kind enough to stab me in the back only when I am not looking and I keep my head in the sand much of the time so its a win-win for everyone.\u00a0 And still, there are those circumstances albeit few and far between when I feel the need to protect my heart, or shelter my mind from the energy vampires, drama llamas or well meaning mammas that for no fault of their own I find I can no longer stand in their MySpace.<\/p>\n

Whether we feel the block, tackle or get called out of the game for unnecessary roughness, all we can do is try and let go<\/em><\/strong> especially if someone is pushing us over the gigabit balcony.\u00a0 The byte of a foe can throttle our pace, put us in our place or give us the space we need to work on our own demons.\u00a0 And in truth we can always only work on our Self.\u00a0 Because we can never hope to tame the shrew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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