follow-up: the angry blogger

I wrote the angry blogger earlier this summer. Talking about how it’s wrong to write mean things about other people and then print them in a blog.

And then what did I do? I posted a couple of pissed-off blogs.

True, some hurtful, hurtful things have been said and written about me lately. Pointed, mean things about how I’m not a good person. Mean enough to make me want to say something back, and I did.

But, it was wrong. As my mom would say, “you weren’t raised that way, Lisa.” So I deleted them. The people in question don’t read this blog so it’s a small concession- they didn’t know about the posts anyway. But I know I did the right thing. I’ve always said I wouldn’t delete any post just because someone doesn’t like it. But in the end, I was the one who didn’t like the posts- and I didn’t like myself very much for writing them.

It really hurt me to hear and read negative things about myself. But it didn’t make me feel any better to put something out in the public domain about those other people. I don’t need to print snippy things about someone else in order to feel good about my life. I have too much other stuff to write about here. I’m not going to continue to try to respond to a war of words; a war I never wanted to get into, a war that has gotten way out of hand. It’s silly, really.

I’ll continue to make mistakes during my journey. But hopefully, I won’t make this mistake again.