So there’s this friend of mine and she says she wants to
read my blog so I think great because I need all the readers I can get and I give
her the link and we don’t see each other for a while but after a few weeks I
get an email from her and in the last
paragraph she says she’s read my blog and that she guesses that sharing my thoughts with other people must be a useful way of clarifying
them and it doesn’t take much thinking for me to clarify what she actually means is that my blog is the
most hideous example of SOLIPSISTIC
NAVEL-GAZING and SELF-SEEKING
EXHIBITIONISM she has ever had the bad fortune to encounter and she can’t
think for a moment why I would expect a goldfish to be interested in my inane
ramblings let alone the two and a half other people who read them quite clearly
out of some frankly insane misplaced loyalty and then I realise the reason I
haven’t heard from her for ages is because she’s been looking for a humane way
to tell me JUST HOW MUCH SHE HATES my
blog and has been trying out sentences on her husband and friends and everyone
has been telling her that sometimes you
have to be cruel to be kind which she would usually reject as a tired
cliché but in this case she’s going to make an exception.
Then, I take another look at her email. This is
what it says:
‘I really enjoyed the blog, and will definitely keep
reading. I bet it's a great way of clarifying your thoughts on various
things and so good to share it with others.’
Beware the inner critic. It only sees what it wants to see and it can really bring you down.
