Interesting Comment
Posted by Andrew | Filed under General
Today, I received an interesting comment concerning my last post titled “A Year After You.” The person chose to remain Anonymous and as far as I can tell, I do not know this person. There comment goes as follows,
I’m sure it’s not all that bad. A good place to begin the resolution and healing process might be pointing the finger at yourself and figuring out where you’re responsibility lies. Otherwise you run the risk of looking just as stupid to the online world as said person looks to you.
The person is absolutely right, it really isn’t that bad. But on the day I wrote it I was reflecting heavily on my past and the mistakes I made. In no way did I mean to point fingers at other people, especially considering that I don’t believe them to actually exist. However, do I look stupid to the online world? Probably, but it wasn’t that post that caused it. Read my Twitter stream sometime, I make myself out as a fool quite often.
Now, as for the “said person,” like I said, I don’t believe them to exist. I think that as human beings with complex minds, we create fictional people based on the people we meet in real life. Sometimes we can dwell on these fictional people for a long time allowing them to stir emotions in us. I believe it isn’t healthy for anyone to allow this to happen.
That post was about banishing one of these fictional people, some may refer to it as an “inner demon.” It was my promise to myself that I would not allow the demon to have governance over my emotions. I am now attending a new school and living in a new place and meeting new people and making new friends.
Looking back on it, I don’t know if it was wise or not to write that piece and post it here. But, I’m not going to take it down, and I’m not going to just ignore a perfectly legitimate comment like this. I just wanted to make it understood that I was using a metaphor. I can see that I wasn’t clear on that in the post.
Tomorrow I’m going to post about my first week at the U. Should be interesting, a lot of stuff to tell of course.
