An honest answer, please

[ml3602]

I only have a few minutes before my mother gets here to watch the new Lost episode but I felt the need to post this while I was thinking about it.

What all do you dislike about me?

And if you think that question sounded too harsh, maybe just try answering a similar version:

What all would you change about me?I realize this is probably a crazy

Comments

[pure_magic]

Yes, you do need a better computer!! :)

As for being able to say more online... I completely agree. This is a journal setting and journals are known for being more private than other forms of communication... so the mere fact that you are willing to share your journal entries with us is pretty big in and of itself. We should feel privileged. :) On the other hand, like I said earlier, we have nothing to compare you to, so you have nothing to lose in sharing it all with us. I can understand why it might be harder to open up to someone offline, because in doing this myself I see flaws in doing that. My best friend for 6 years read one of my online journals. In one of the entries I wrote in Leet (online language) because I knew she didn't know how to read it and I had to get my emotions out. I was mad at her. Of course the feeling passed after I wrote it out, but even after being told not to read it, she read it anyway and got mad with me. I won't say this was the cause of our friendship falling apart, but I will say it was the beginning of the end. I still try to be friendly, treat her with respect, go out of my way to offer her kindness (I have even explained that some of my journal entries are written in moments of passion when I don't mean what I say), but she refuses to acknowledge me. So I guess there are some things that some people just don't want to know about a person. But then again, Justin knows the password to my LJ and hasn't broken in yet. You just really have to be careful with being open to other people. It's really sad when people can't accept you for who you are (moods and all) and listen to your advice (don't read this...). I knew it was tempting when I put it out there, but with it being my journal and in a code, I just assumed, as a true friend, she would ask rather than snoop. heh. Sorry for this long bit. I just wanted to let you know that I understand and that it's ok to not be completely open (either online or IRL).

[ml3602]

I completely understand what you mean. It reminds me of the time Dawson read Joey's journal on Dawson's Creek. People just have to remember that we write things in our journals often in a very heated state, so angry words said about a certain person in those journals doesn't necessarily reflect on how we feel about them during every day life. We all say things we don't mean when we are angry. But you are right about how your friend should have respected your privacy. You would have made the entry available to her if you had wanted her to read it. And I honestly don't think people should know how we feel toward them when we are angry. Those thoughts hurt when they are usually only fleeting in our minds.