Reply #37: haha

[27inCali]

I think if you express yourself thoughtfully and honestly to someone, and they pass total judgement on what you to say before hearing it, they are being foolish and you have a right to mock them for it.

I don't like rhetoric, I don't like strained arguments, if I sit down and write something out, it's what I really think, and it's what I think needs to be said at the moment whether it's what people want to hear or not. Many of the most important things you will ever hear will be things you didn't want to hear. I just don't think you are reading what I have to say but scanning for poorly worded phrases you can take out of context and attack me with.

We are often in our lives reduced to charicatures by the people we deal with, they take a glance, sum us up and never see more than that brutally simple summation no matter what we tell them or what we accomplish before their eyes. When this happens to me, I remind myself of that quote as I often remind myself of various random quotes and maxims I have discovered over the years,

That is what happened to me today, people commented on what I had to say before even reading it, they reminded me of the quote, so I added it, perhaps in an immature fashion, to call it demeaning is an exaggeration.