Thursday Thirteen #124: 13 Reasons Why You Should Never Blog When You’re Mad or Have the Mean Reds
My most tardy Thursday Thirteen ever (I think, anyway)…
(With apologies to 13ers and Usual Suspects, who may have been waiting.)
Why You Should Never Blog When You’re Mad or Have the Mean Reds:
13. It’s like drunk-dialing. It’s just a bad idea.
12. Even if you delete it later, they’ll remember it.
11. My habit of using cuss words, even under the best of circumstances.
10. There may be children in the room.
9. Someone else’s children may be reading what you just wrote, in regards to their beloved parents. That is just so frickin’ uncool, to yammer on negatively about someone when it’s not absolutely necessary.
8. Blog unto others as you would have them blog unto you.
7. Temper, temper. Don’t let it flare. Venting does not always make it better. I know.
6. It stops you from getting important work done, when you’re “angry typing.” Mopping the kitchen floor, for instance, or revising the damn manuscript you have to get done by Jan. 1, 2008. (Self-imposed deadline; must follow.)
5. People usually have good intentions; we all just rub each other a little bit the wrong way sometimes.
4. Or a lot. I don’t mean to be morbid here, but you know what I’m going to be in fifty years? (Or less?) Dead. That’s right. So what’s the point of all the fussing?
3. My daughter’s teacher was reading the kids the last chapters of “Charlotte’s Web” yesterday and I thought, if we could all try to be half as decent as Charlotte and Wilbur, think of how much nicer the whole world would be. Then I got all choked up because, you know. I love that book. I love it so much. Enough, already, it’s fiction. But dammit, I think we can all learn a little something here.
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.” — E.B. White
2. Being angry makes your heart hurt.
1. It’s just too dang close to Christmas and New Year’s to waste any time on nonsense.
Happy Holidays, y’all.
Love,
WM