Nov. 10th, 2002

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People who post "Oh poor me, my life is shit, I'm so unloved, my friends aren't there for me" messages -- and disable comments, thereby reducing the post to little more than masturbatory self-pity.

Look, if you want to bitch and moan about your life, that's your call -- it's your journal -- but if you actually want to DO something about it, try picking up the goddamned phone from time to time.

UPDATE


Since two people I tend to think of as intelligent missed my point so spectacularly, I think I ought to clarify it.

Of COURSE you can post whatever you like in your journal. Only a complete nimrod would have failed to see that point, which was stated pretty explicitly in the second paragraph. And of COURSE you don't have to allow comments. I never said otherwise. I merely said it annnoys me. Here's why:

As Ilk pointed out in his comment to this post, people who say their journal is for them alone are only fooling themselves. If that were the case, they'd make their entries PRIVATE, thereby making sure no one but they themselves can read them. But if you make them public, post messages decrying your loneliness and sorrow, but make such posts uncommentable, what are you actually saying? "I'm lonely, and I want you to know it, but I don't want you to say anything to me that might help." It rather defeats the purpose of saying anything about it, don't you think? It's a simultaneous cry for and denial of help.

And if you're actually not LIKING the fact that you're lonely, feeling ignored, what-have-you, why not try calling the friends you want to be around? If I'm feeling lonely and want to change it, I call someone up and do something about it. If you don't want to do that, then why are you complaining in the first place?

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