Public Relations in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write

I decided that I would participate in Pride, which is something I mostly had avoided since moving to Thailand. I’ve never really enjoyed that kind of frivolity, just too many people and other things that make me dislike the whole event.

However, I was finally persuaded that it wasn’t meant for me when the police officer running the security checkpoint lifted a bunch of my personal belongings.

There wasn’t anything more than humiliation awaiting me so I went home. I realized that I had joined an event that I hadn’t really been invited to join. It was at that point that I started to examine how I came to think I was supposed to go to this event.

So I started to look at my social media and how I was using it… Or more importantly, how it was using me.

I asked my followers what they use Instagram for and the responses I got were mostly about “establishing your brand” and “representing yourself to people”. As I tried to reflect what then I used it for. I came of age when social media was about keeping tabs on those which whom you felt close, and that has definitely changed.

So I came to a conclusion, I have no use for any of it. I have no brand. I don’t want to be represented. Every answer I got had some kind of public aspect to it. But I am no longer a public figure, I retired many many years ago. I have no interest in being a spectacle or having people know what I’m doing, who I’m doing it with.

So no more.

Last updated June 04, 2024