Well I've been thinking about this for a couple of days now so, although it's not really all that exciting, I thought I'd take the time to write it down.
Lately it seems like the two words I've been saying the most are, "be nice." Perhaps this is because the group of kids I'm around all day at school. They're not very nice to each other. Some of this is joking, but some of it is just plain mean. Also the harshness I've been seeing people write to each other on their blogs seems to be creaping into my view. I just wish people would take a step back once in a while and realize the impact of their words and their attitudes on others. I know that sometimes people are joking around and being sarcastic, but that negativity slowly creeps into their interactions, even when they're not joking. It's a disease. I'm working really hard right now to be nice to everyone, but it does seem so hard when the people I interact daily seem to be so negative. Don't get me wrong here, the people aren't bad. I actually really like and enjoy the group of people I've been pleased to associate with. I also enjoy the opportunity I get to read other people's opinions on their blogs. It's just hard to take the bad with the good sometimes. So anyway, my thought for the day today is just to be nice.
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this is totally unrelated to you post.
i've been reading a book on the problem of evil latety (how can bad things happen in the world?) and discussing some of the philosophical aspects of it with my professor, and it reminded me of our discussion we had after your aunt died.
i just thought i'd say that.
OK. So, as promised, I visited and read throught your blog. What is UP with your "anonymous" friend, several posts down? I keep seeing this with several blogs I read and enjoy. Someone gets all critical and rude and then refuses to sign a name. Eeerrgh. I could spit nails! Sorry to rant. I think you're A-OK!
Thank you Amyjane! That's part of the not nice things I've been experiencing lately.
yeah... i don't like cowards who throw out ignorant criticisms under the cover of anonymity. i get it all way too much on my blog, but I guess that's what I have to pay if I want people to be able to comment without registering.
hate to break it to you but you have more than one anonymous friend who chimed in on the tampering with med school selections - only one of those comments belonged to my anonymous moniker. However, I do think that there is something to point out. I noticed your propensity to jump on mine and other's anonymous comments you didn't like but you didn't even acknowledge a supportive comment written to you about not getting in your first year (something I read quite a bit ago on your blog). You don't spend the time to thank that woman for her attempt at support but you spend a lot of time attacking "mean" comments on your blog. Just some outside insight. And, you know it IS your blog. If you don't like the comments people post you might consider making people register or just deleting them.
I agree with you, Miss Maggie. It's especially important to be nice in online interactions, where there is less context with people's comments and it's easier for something to come off as rude than.
Dear Anonymous from above,
The other anonymous comments that have been supportive on my blog have most come from my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law so I did take time to talk to them and thank them for their support. It just wasn't on my blog.
PS. I wasn't attacking you in my post right now. Actually I wrote that after reading a particularly mean comment on my friend's blog.
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