tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post114011180646760930..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: When you were young and your heart was an open bookThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140180456577443112006-02-17T12:47:00.000+00:002006-02-17T12:47:00.000+00:00"Inconceivable" slipped out but when I re-read the..."Inconceivable" slipped out but when I re-read the sentence I thought, "Oh well, <I>nobody</I> apart from me will notice that." <BR/><BR/>I am ashamed to have underestimated readers such as her Ladyship.<BR/><BR/>Thing is about all this, it <I>must</I> be due to insecurity. There are some things about my life I am sensitive about being judged for, but if I <I>am</I> to be judged, there is little I can say or do to exonerate myself in another person's mind.<BR/><BR/>So now we have so much freedom to live life the way we want, why don't other people have the confidence to ignore these imaginary slights? Why do so many folks <I>imagine</I> them in the first place when other people simply accept a difference in opinion and experience?The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140169061827518602006-02-17T09:37:00.000+00:002006-02-17T09:37:00.000+00:00I've said this elsewhere in the blogsphere, but it...I've said this elsewhere in the blogsphere, but it bears saying again: some people interpret a simple difference of opinion or taste as implicit criticism of themselves. If you say <I>you</I> don't want children, that <I>must</I> mean that you think <I>I</I> am wrong/selfish/stupid for having/wanting children. How dare you? Therefore I will counterattack.<BR/><BR/>Just read threads on the ouch! board for extended examples of this mindset.<BR/><BR/>Not realising that simple fact has got me into oodles of trouble over the years, I would hate for it to trip you up too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140125791287761782006-02-16T21:36:00.000+00:002006-02-16T21:36:00.000+00:00"Inconceivable": deliberate pun, or Freudian slip?..."Inconceivable": deliberate pun, or Freudian slip?Lady Bracknellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06140991035663374911noreply@blogger.com