Last night there was too much dreaming about frustrating circumstances surrounding making jewelry and trying to find places to show and sell it
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The ones about U2 tended to be just offhand links given in comments on blogs that I read- not part of the blogs themselves, but I do have this train-wreck issue where, even though I know that commenters on MANY blogs and spaces (Like Youtube commentary, oh LORDY the Youtube BURNS ME) will be hurtful and make me cringe, I wind up reading the darn things, hoping for some GLIMMER of being able to figure out how people can get so damn messed up/stupid.
The U2 things were from a post on Slacktivist, that I loved, where some commenter basically did a "U2 IS DEAD TO ME BECAUSE OF THIS!" thing, and... being me... I went off to some angry Irish political blog and took it personally. Augh.
if you find you take comments personally, you really need to stop yourself from following the trainwreck. Internallizing this insanity is detrimental to your health.
Yeah. I keep reminding myself of that, and try to face it down with logic, but that horrified curiosity seems to just win out. Sometimes/Some days it is NOT an issue, because I don't take things hard, or personal, and am able to clearly define where and what my emotional/personal involvement ends. Unfortunately, in times of stress, my brain tries to turn everything into something scary about the world or myself, from stupid blog comments to acquaintances or friends not returning an IM, phone call, or chat-channel message in time, to random politics and opinions/beliefs
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The U2 things were from a post on Slacktivist, that I loved, where some commenter basically did a "U2 IS DEAD TO ME BECAUSE OF THIS!" thing, and... being me... I went off to some angry Irish political blog and took it personally. Augh.
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