"Thoughts expressed on Facebook may be harmful to you!" Well... aside from what you say that might be taken the wrong way... there's always the risk that someone, somewhere, somehow, will take offense at what you write. This is probably especially true if you express a thought of feeling that is contrary to how they think or feel. OH, PLEASE! It's NOT a declaration telling you what you should think or feel... it's simply how the writer feels. And if you know the person as a friend, perhaps a little consideration and understanding might be in order. If you know them well enough, to think that they wouldn't write something negative, that you would take the wrong way, well... they probably didn't mean it that way. Besides... if you are going to hold one thing against them, after a long friendship, just because it strikes a nerve... maybe you just need to get over it and not make more of it then what it is. After all... life's too short and getting shorter everyday. This seems to be an ever growing problem on Facebook. Over the past years, several people were extremely concerned about what I write because they felt I had a great deal of influence on others and others respected what I had to say. Well, perhaps this is more credit then I really deserve (a great influence on others)... but if so, perhaps they should be more concerned about themselves, how they act, and how they are viewed... and not the fact that they will be put in a bad light from someone else expressing thoughts and feelings that are true. Worse yet, they may hold a grudge that may have a negative impact on you. Well, ya can't do anything about that... small people that think they are perfect and can do no wrong generally can not accept that others wouldn't always think that they were the greatest! ... and if you put them in a bad light... you will endure their wrath. Even more so if it involves an issue that is more open to be easily discriminated against. Wow, condemn someone because of a prejudice belief... yep, happens all the time. Sometimes even if you are neutral on the subject... if you don't share their prejudice belief, you could be in harms way if you so express it in writing. Funny how things in writing have much more weight then the spoken word. I guess if you simply say it, it's done with, over, and gone, and perhaps soon forgotten. If written, it could go anywhere, for anyone to read, virtually forever. And to think, it all started with a simple expression of how you really felt about something... but you shouldn't say such things... right. I have a hard time and little respect for those that simply condemn others because they have a different though or feeling on a topic, that simply doesn't match theirs. So why did I write this? and who is it aimed at? Why?: the mood and the moment just struck me. Who?: Actually, no one specifically... really! But, I'm sure that someone will think it's about them, when it's really not. Just a attempt to see things in a different light, and from a different perspective. Take from it what you will. Perhaps just a little bit of understanding... perhaps nothing. After all, I don't profess to be E.F.Hutton lol.
