Read at your own risk!
For many years I've lived by the belief that honesty will keep my life
less complicated and for the most part it has, but now I think that
I'll be subject to the consequences of how my honesty affects other
people. Well all I can say is read my journal at your own risk.
Reading my journal entries offers the unique opportunity to learn more
about my personal thoughts and opinions and it also offers the risk of
offending you too. I'm not going to apologize for how I feel about
things because these are my thoughts. For the most part, I'm a good
person and like everyone else I have character flaws and I'm not
perfect, but I'm not intentionally going out of my way to hurt people.
I'm writing these entries for my own personal benefit and to remember
them in the future. However, I never actually thought that people
would read my stories and now some of my family members are upset about
some of my comments. What they don't understand is that my journal is
just for me, not them and I was being honest about how I feel. If you
don't like it, don't read it.
As we know, everyone sees the world through their own lens and their
point of view is different from everyone else's. A classic example of
this is when police officers question people at a crime scene and every
witness has a different recollection of what actually happened. Well,
lately I've been doing a lot of writing about my personal life and my
memories throughout my life. I haven't had a chance to talk to these
people yet and maybe I won't even bring it up because we've had this
whole discussion before. The particular comments in question I wrote
in my journal were for me to put my thoughts down and not intended to
be used as a weapon to hurt them. Also, my comments may have been more
dramatic because I was in the last week of my pregnancy with raging
hormones and discomfort and that always colors my writing. I kind of
feel like I can't be honest with my feelings anymore and I'm a bit
worried to even write all of this down. My sister suggested that I
password protect my Blog in order to keep my personal information
protected. I'll have to consider it, but now I feel like I have to
censor my thoughts, but out of consideration for others, I'll try to be
a bit more diplomatic and careful with my word choices.
less complicated and for the most part it has, but now I think that
I'll be subject to the consequences of how my honesty affects other
people. Well all I can say is read my journal at your own risk.
Reading my journal entries offers the unique opportunity to learn more
about my personal thoughts and opinions and it also offers the risk of
offending you too. I'm not going to apologize for how I feel about
things because these are my thoughts. For the most part, I'm a good
person and like everyone else I have character flaws and I'm not
perfect, but I'm not intentionally going out of my way to hurt people.
I'm writing these entries for my own personal benefit and to remember
them in the future. However, I never actually thought that people
would read my stories and now some of my family members are upset about
some of my comments. What they don't understand is that my journal is
just for me, not them and I was being honest about how I feel. If you
don't like it, don't read it.
As we know, everyone sees the world through their own lens and their
point of view is different from everyone else's. A classic example of
this is when police officers question people at a crime scene and every
witness has a different recollection of what actually happened. Well,
lately I've been doing a lot of writing about my personal life and my
memories throughout my life. I haven't had a chance to talk to these
people yet and maybe I won't even bring it up because we've had this
whole discussion before. The particular comments in question I wrote
in my journal were for me to put my thoughts down and not intended to
be used as a weapon to hurt them. Also, my comments may have been more
dramatic because I was in the last week of my pregnancy with raging
hormones and discomfort and that always colors my writing. I kind of
feel like I can't be honest with my feelings anymore and I'm a bit
worried to even write all of this down. My sister suggested that I
password protect my Blog in order to keep my personal information
protected. I'll have to consider it, but now I feel like I have to
censor my thoughts, but out of consideration for others, I'll try to be
a bit more diplomatic and careful with my word choices.
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Everyone is a different person. The five kids in my family are a classic example how different people can be, even growing up in the same house.
People need to respect other people's thoughts, and regard them as just that.
I have to say, I don't agree with all of your opinions, but I don't think you should start censoring your entries. After all, this is a BLOG.
I like learning about you as a person, and now as a mother. It doesn't matter if I disagree with some of your opinions, because I am a different person.
Maybe whoever made you feel this way needs to be more diplomatic.