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I love online journals, and I hate them at the same time. It was mentioned to me recently that it's sad when you have to catch up on your friend's lives via reading their 'blogs' instead of just picking up the phone and talking to them. Obviously, in life, time is an ever watchful eye and we are not always able to telephone each and every friend and explain the events of the day, and our friends don't always have the time to hear our daily woes. Sometimes it's nice to just put it out there, like the daily news, and when they have time, there it is.
This can be taken too far, however, when people use them as a springboard with which to launch an attack on their readers. I can think of a few people right off the top of my head that do this, and it makes me just livid. If you need to vent or scream about an issue, or a person who's left your life, so be it, but when they're still IN your life, wouldn't it be best to talk it out with them instead?
These blogs seem to be the perfect tool for the passive-aggressive to lash out without the discomfort of direct confrontation. I myself enjoy confrontation, even welcome it at times, because I was raised a fighter, with a tomahawk instead of a rattle. I don't know the meaning of the expression 'fight or flight'. It's fight to me, always, always fight. I was brought up to believe that flight equaled weakness, so if I use my wings, it's just to fly up high enough to kick you right between the eyes.
So, this is the jist of what I am saying here... DON'T BE A WHINY, PUSSY, TITTY-BABY. If you're old enough to write it, you're old enough to say it outright.
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