When I began blogging a few months ago I made some occasional controversial remarks. If you look back over those posts you may disagree with this interpretation, but in my mind they were controversial. I don't have delusions of grandeur, rather there was a number of times when people leveled some deserved and undeserved criticism of my position on a few issues. It was kind of weird when after starting a blog primarily to force myself to become a reflector, people who I've never met (and in reality at the time didn't really give two hoots about*) chose to have a dig. Water off a duck's back to me, but not a great reflection on my wife. As such I chose to as best possible distance (read 'protect') her from my online musings. Thus 'S' was born.
'S' wants to come out of hiding.
'S' shall forevermore be known as Sarah.
Sarah, do you have anything you want to say?
In future, be kind to my husband.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
*One of my favourite Shaun Micallef lines is "Like a stuttering owl with laryngitis, I couldn't give two hoots."
Zac, you ok?
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Hi Kutz,
ReplyDeleteYeah man, I'm doing fine. No mental breakdown at this point. I'm planning that for January some time, but at this present stage I remain with my normal faculties.
Sarah simply asked me to start referring to her on the blog by her name and as I reflected back on why I called her 'S' in the first place, it brought back some unpleasant memories. A few times lurkers came out to disagree with me (a perfectly acceptable thing to do) but Sarah said to me "You know people, who you may meet one day, are forming their opinion of you based on the blog." This caused me to realise I wasn't the only one who would cop criticism if I said something stupid online.
To be clear, I love when people comment on my blog. I love that I've met and are meeting new people online. It was really one particular post and comment that really worried Sarah earlier on and to which I was referring to in the above rant.
Thanks for your concern.
Cool, just hoping that you and your wifey are going ok. Thanks for blogging. :)
ReplyDeleteGod bless to you and Sarah,
Kutz