So, I allowed myself to get involved in an argument on a facebook thread. I
shouldn't have let myself, but I do think I bowed out of the argument pretty
well. The thread was on a writers page. There are tons of them on there that
people can post questions, or advice and so forth to the writer community. I
tell ya, I felt like I was in High school all over again with the other people
in the thread cheering on the rude person I was speaking with. He was rude and
had an attitude that he knew everything. I don't not appreciate people like
that. When someone asks for help on a general forum, asking everyone and not
one single person, that gives everyone the right to comment. I posted my idea,
and he responded rudely that it wasn't helpful at all and that the sentence the
girl had asked for hadn't changed. I got upset that he was rude. Anyone who
could read that could understand that it was rude. If he wouldn't have said it
the way he did, and asked it nicer there would have been no problem, I would
have responded with my reasoning in kind. But he was rude and I responded
likewise.
The point I am trying to beat around the bush with is this,
there will always be a writer whether published or not, that will be rude, think
they know more, and say something. It's ok, kind of. Just think of it as
this. There will always be mean people in the world that think they know
better. But if you always keep in mind that you know you aren't perfect, you
aren't the smartest person in the world, that will help you along. There is
more peace in humility than there is in bigotry. I hope that if you have an
experience like that, you will remember this. You aren't alone, no its not high
school anymore, but there are still some who like to think so.
Please have
a good day, and keep your chin up.
