Nicely Done
Today was a bit discouraging, well actually yesterday as it’s 3:24 am. My question is this, why is everyone so angry? It seems like most forums I visit have a hierarchy of snarkiness, where people are rude for no apparent reason. (Yes, I used snarkiness as a word & I’m stick to it). Even a book site I belong to often dissolves into random personal attacks. I’ve become used to going through several comments a day on my blog that inform that “I suck”, or that “I’m stupid”, while I think “Don’t they realize how wicked awesome I am?” People actually take time out of their day to tell others that they hate them.
It wouldn’t be so bad if this was just on the net. It just seems like everywhere I look, there is anger. I wonder, has it always been like this, & I just was too focused on how cute Matt Damon is to notice? Even as I type this, I can think of many random acts of kindness that abound, but I don’t know how to be a part of them. I am tired. Maybe that’s the problem we are all too tired to think about kindness.
Now I consider myself the unofficial queen of sarcasm, I love to make fun of stuff, so if I’m saying it’s bad, then it must be. I’ve considered just simply grounding myself from such places as forums. Yeah, that lasted for about three hours until the middle of the night & I couldn’t sleep. All the anger just makes me sooooo angry. It’s like how I’m prejudiced against prejudiced people. Nicely done Sara.
Filed under: Fibromyalgia Support on June 29th, 2007
It’s such an arbitrary choice. Hate or love? Anger or compassion? Be nice, or be horrid? It’s so strange because neither option is necessarily better than the other. So why are we always in the negative? It’s flippin’ weird I tell you. Personally, I prefer the positive, it’s easier, lighter, less taxing on the ole heart/brain, and keeps life looking wonderful. So. You are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And I mean it.
Loads of love, Kaetie
yeah, people are absolute uhm, shall we say, “meanies” on the internet….it’s sort of like the Lord of the Flies mask concept i guess….very sad that it is that way, but it is
I think people just lose all inhibitions when it comes to the Net, and use it to get out all their hidden anger…I’m pretty sure that every blog site eventually gets these kind of comments, people who are trying to make themselves feel big by putting you down…
I heard someone describe them as “blog bullies” and that’s exactly what they are. I’ve had a few nasty little comments over the years, and it’s surprising how quickly people give up if you’re just awfully polite and then don’t respond.