A Retraction of Sorts

When you have access to a public forum like a blog, it seems as though you can say whatever you want. In celebrity culture, the famous use the media as a means to get back at one another. Public mudslinging. The tabloids love it when couples break up and throw barbs at each other in the press. Nothing is ever really solved this way and someone always gets burned.

The truth is, the first amendment needs to be used with caution. You can't simply defame people and throw it all out there. There needs to be some sort of censorship. Blogging is quite new to me, but in the short time I've had this blog, I have pissed off some people. I have said some hurtful things. Sometimes I write things in hope certain people won't read it, but then they do. So, I apologize if I have offended anyone with the comments I've made. It never was my intention to infuriate certain people. I'm just expressing myself, but some comments should be kept to myself or to my own personal journal. From now on, I will be more careful with the sort of content I write. Things have a way of getting out of hand. When differences and conflicts arise, the mudslinging begins. Words are exchanged--words that you might not even mean. Sides are taken. Conflict brings out the worst in us. It brings out our child immaturity. You can sit there forever going back and forth about who did what to whom and how so and so started it and so and so is wrong and you're right. But the thing is, during a conflicted situation, we as adults need to handle it better. I guess I'm speaking from experience about several incidents in my life. It's easy to take a bad situation and quickly exacerbate it. Lives sometimes are ruined because of all this aforementioned behavior. Once that line is crossed, there is no returning. You can only hope one day you'll be able to pick up the pieces and come to terms with it. You have to let the dust settle first. Every action has a reaction.

I don't believe in writing people off. I think back to all the people I could've in the past for various reasons, and I'm glad I didn't. These people have since become cherished friends and I couldn't imagine my life without them. We as people are too quick to judge others.

Since going away to college at 18 yrs old, I've had a myriad of roommates. Honestly, all of my living situations have ended disastrously. What is it about living with people that brings out the worst in us?

I'm going to do my best to react better. I'm going to try harder not to make defamatory and/or ill-willed comments. We all should strive to be more civil adults and realize how our action affect others.