Or so I’m told. More and more often these days. I take that to mean that people are under the assumption that I think I’m somehow better than they are. For the record, I don’t.
The fact that this rarely happens to me in real life makes me think that the problem is not what I say, but the way that I say it. I enjoy lively debate at the best of times, and never more than with the variety of great minds on JU.
Yet lately I have been feeling the effects of speaking my mind without the benefit of ‘real time’ to allow a conversation, and I admit that, out of frustration, I have let my thoughts and comments get a little out of hand.
I spoke to Mig a little while ago, and she said to me “this is not you”. And she’s right. When it comes to actually considering that I may have hurt the feelings of others, then for me it’s time to cool off a little and take a step back.
I cannot change my views, and I understand that I’m not expected to. Yet I guess I could work a little on the delivery. In the heat of ‘blog battle’, the big guns come out and before I know it I am embroiled in yet another controversy.
For the record, I do regret any personal slur I may have made. Whatever the circumstances were, getting personal is not the way to go.
(Besides, Mig is going to kick my ass if I don’t behave. I’m scared. I really am!).
BAM!!!