So, I think I tend to get more emotional over rude things online than I do in person. if someone insults me to my face, most times it doesn't phase me - I really couldn't care less. But there have been several instances of people writing things online that jab at me or a friend that really got me riled up.
A while back my friend Brian had a roommate with a girlfriend who lived in CO who had never met Brian. She wrote some very derogatory remarks about Brian on her blog...and that upset me. And recently, a self-proclaimed pedant chided me for a typo I wrote in a comment to a friend....and that upset me, too. Both times I wanted to write back with some biting remarks - give the person a dose of her own medicine. I did write back the first time, I did not the second.
I think I need to learn to let these things go as easily as I do in real life. Maybe it is because I feel more articulate with the written word and have more time to stew on it than in real life. But I realized that if I sting back at the person who stings me, I am no better. I don't feel so guilty for stinging back for my friend, I wanted to stick up for him. But I'm trying to discipline myself to turn the other cheek - there is a time to speak and a time to be silent, and I am trying to discern the difference.
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you could respond without retaliating. and ironically, sometimes the most biting comebacks are calm, controlled thoughts that contrast and magnify just how ridiculous the person was to begin with.
i don't know how i found your blog, just googled turn the other cheek, it's 3am what can i say. i wonder if anyone will ever read this.
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