Good [should] > Bad

[artangel17]

Why are the good things always being tempered by the bad? I suppose it's just too much to ask for things to be happy, right?

The Good:

• I actually got a good night's sleep.
• There's no school today.
• Driver's License arrived in today's mail, and I was shocked to discover that I actually had a good picture.
• There were two more college

Comments

[anonymous]

This HAS to be the MOST unimaginative, stale and boring blog EVER written on the web. The subject matter you write about is juvenile and the language you portray it in is mundane. Do you actually believe that ANYONE that doesn't know you personally would be, even remotely, interested in your driver's license picture, whether you have homework this weekend or where you're going to college? I can't believe you have the gall to BRAG about where you may go to college here (like a small child). This is typical of a young person, STILL living a sheltered life at home with their parents, who knows little about life and the world around them. I have a word of advice for you: GET A LIFE! then, MAYBE, you'll have something of substance to share with others. In the meanwhile, you may want to make comments and maybe write your naive opinions here in your small corner of cyberspace (known as a blog) about what other people (that actually have lives) are doing outside of your small existence. Please do us all a favor and save this tripe that you write in you blog and look at it in twenty years and you see that everything I've told you hear is the truth.

[artangel17]

On the other hand; you must not have much of a life to actually be taking the time out of your daily life to tell me to get a life. Have a little respect! It may not be interesting to you, but I see it more as a way to vent, and sometimes share/get feedback on my PERSONAL WRITING. It's people like you that make people change their blogs to friends only. Get over it; you didn't have to read this. I didn't make you read this, and I'm certainly not forcing you to comment. So just GO AWAY and tell it to someone who fucking cares!

[anonymous]

Congratulations! You know some curse words. Curse words are the last resort of people that have limited vocabularies. I know now that you can write complete sentences but knowing how type does not agenius make. You have come to a battle of wits half-armed. I can see by your response to my
comment, that the truth does indeed hurt. Quae
nocent, saepe docent. As you get older and hopefully
wiser, you'll learn not to be the know-it-all you are
when lecturing on poetry on the web, you might, some day, even learn some compassion and humility. One question: You evidently don't like being trashed (no one does) so why
do you have to be so mean spirited and nit-picking in
your poetry reviews? Mostly other teenagers are just being
nice when praising your poetry giving you a false
sense of it's worth. Anyone who truly knows poetry can
see the simple fact that your poetry is sadly lacking.
I have no respect for a writer who comments on the
finer points of advanced poetry on another's efforts,
when their own work is so elementary. I will leave you
now to your ignorant bliss, NEVER, will I return to
this plastic, superficial Blog. Non scholae sed vitae discimus.

[artangel17]

You may never come back to read this again, but if you do, I want to leave you with one thought. The mean-spiritedness is by no means intentional. I try to give my honest opinion, and I try my hardest not to offend. If the person chooses to feel offended by words I have said (and I know I am sometimes overly harsh), I wish that they would come to me outright, rather than bashing me anonymously. If they are offended, and they tell me that they feel as such, then I will apologize. I also know that a lot of what I write is not something that could be considered phenomenal, but that's the point of sharing your writing: to gain additional feedback to improve your own writing.

And tell me the truth. Would you rather that I leave the mindless little comments of "oh my god! that was so amazing" with a billion spelling errors in it and made it clear that I didn't spend time thinking about what you've said in your poem, or would you prefer that I keep my comments as is. If you want me to change, say so. Tell me to my face! And don't do so in hidden, ANONYMOUS comments.

The golden rule: Do unto others as you want others to do unto you. I DO give comments as I would like to see them given back to me: honest opinions. Can you honestly say the same, whoever you are?