Probably a goodbye post.
... since if/ when I do decide to delete by account, I'll just do it.
Thank you very much to the people who have posted such interesting things and commented so kindly on my posts.
Those posts are the problem however. I am cluttering up other people friends' feeds with fannish nonsense, photographs mainly relating to fannish matters, even once a recipe, and so forth. There have been some personal experiences too, and even if they may have served to illustrate something that I suspect is part of a wider and seldom spoken-of problem, they haven't been situations that have been directly life threatening. (Indeed, life-threatening only by a lengthy chain of logic to a very small number of people.)
Up until now, it didn't seem to matter. Today though, I realised that it was not simply a question of thinking "Well if it doesn't matter to other people they need not read it".
I realised that I (and others) had offended someone - and they did sound, in their original post both angry and indigent, although they then said they "just felt curious" - by not posting sympathy for the families of those killed in Tunisia. I have apologized to the individual in question, but can only suppose other people are offended too, although I doubt the families of those killed care in the slightest what is said on livejournal.
I am sorry for the omission, I don't normally comment on the news at all, because I have nothing to say that cannot be said better by others, not because I don't care.
And worst of all, after apologizing to the individual I looked for their response to another atrocity. Could it serve as a model for what I ought to have posted in the circumatances? The response wasn't there. Not in April 2014, May 2014, Junes 2014. I felt angry. I wondered why that individual felt they could be so shocked and saddened and wonder why other people didn't comment on events in Tunisia when they had themselves failed to comment on this little over a year ago.
And then I felt ashamed of my anger. I'm not fit company for anyone who is as kind as the people who have befriended me here.
Thank you.
Sorry.
Goodbye.
Thank you very much to the people who have posted such interesting things and commented so kindly on my posts.
Those posts are the problem however. I am cluttering up other people friends' feeds with fannish nonsense, photographs mainly relating to fannish matters, even once a recipe, and so forth. There have been some personal experiences too, and even if they may have served to illustrate something that I suspect is part of a wider and seldom spoken-of problem, they haven't been situations that have been directly life threatening. (Indeed, life-threatening only by a lengthy chain of logic to a very small number of people.)
Up until now, it didn't seem to matter. Today though, I realised that it was not simply a question of thinking "Well if it doesn't matter to other people they need not read it".
I realised that I (and others) had offended someone - and they did sound, in their original post both angry and indigent, although they then said they "just felt curious" - by not posting sympathy for the families of those killed in Tunisia. I have apologized to the individual in question, but can only suppose other people are offended too, although I doubt the families of those killed care in the slightest what is said on livejournal.
I am sorry for the omission, I don't normally comment on the news at all, because I have nothing to say that cannot be said better by others, not because I don't care.
And worst of all, after apologizing to the individual I looked for their response to another atrocity. Could it serve as a model for what I ought to have posted in the circumatances? The response wasn't there. Not in April 2014, May 2014, Junes 2014. I felt angry. I wondered why that individual felt they could be so shocked and saddened and wonder why other people didn't comment on events in Tunisia when they had themselves failed to comment on this little over a year ago.
And then I felt ashamed of my anger. I'm not fit company for anyone who is as kind as the people who have befriended me here.
Thank you.
Sorry.
Goodbye.