Thursday, January 27, 2011

This is for you?

And look! It has a brain.

Something rather unfortunate happened this evening and I'm not quite sure how to go about dealing with it. Frankly I'm surprised that this hasn't happened earlier, but now that it has I think I should probably figure it out.
So, the issue is my last blog post was taken as a personal message to an individual. That individual (who is probably reading this right now, hello there) decided to say certain things and draw certain conclusions based on that post. Luckily, the situation was disarmed, but it got me to thinking a few things.
First of all, what if the post had been something worse? I mean, sure, it was pretty out there in terms of content, but what if it had been one of my pieces that sounds like rape, or torture, or something equally twisted? And what if someone construed that as a personal message? Ergh. It just doesn't bear thinking of. I really should try and avoid posts that have anything to do with things that are happening in my life, even remotely. Wait...how am I supposed to do that, exactly? Which leads me to my other thought, which is are other feelings leaking into my creations? I start writing about one thing only to look over it a day, a week or a year later and have it be about something completely different. I start writing about solitude only to have it turn into a rant about sorrow. I start writing about dreams only to read back over it and see that in reality it is an attack on someone who caused me nightmares. My intention and my execution are wildly different.
So I guess I have two options. I can moderate what I post to avoid trouble, or I can carry on shooting my mouth off without a care for anything. Second option's a hell of a lot more interesting, I suppose.

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