Hanging it up :(

Through a tumultuous day, I have come to the conclusion that my blogging days are over. It's just not worth it. Having opinions is marginally okay, but sharing them isn't. I had temporarily forgotten that most people are much more sensitive than I am, and THAT was a lesson that I already had filed in my internal "things I've learned" catalog. Guess that catalog needs re-indexing or something.

But as a last thought, I'm going to summarize my last two posts and explain why expressing my opinions just isn't worth it to me anymore.

I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat (yes, I'm registered as one of those, but I don't identify with either group). I'd like to start my own party - I'd call it the Newfangled Idealist party. Essentially, it would have only two tenets:


1. Don't take other people's stuff, and don't be so excessive about what you have that other people feel like it's okay to take your stuff. There's a lot of room in between those two extremes. To be a member of my Newfangled Idealist party, you have to just be somewhere in the middle.

2. If you break tenet #1, expect the rest of the party to call you on it. You are accountable for your choices. If you believe you are right in what you've done, then you should be okay with this. If not, then it doesn't hurt to make you aware that people have noticed that you broke rule #1.



That's it, really.


Today has taught me that people don't really want to join my party. The world is a "nicer" place so long as we all sit back and keep silent. I think I'm in the position where I have to concede that maybe I have overrated sincerity as a more noteworthy attribute than sensitivity.


Everyone who knows me knows that I don't lie. Truthfully, I think it would be exhausting to keep up with the story that I told and to back-pedal when I'm caught in it. I therefore chose long ago just not to do it, to just live my life being who I am. Sometimes this makes me come across as a complete ass. I can live with that, but I have found out that not everyone can. Perhaps my biggest flaw is that I have severely overestimated the merit of being an honest human being.

Because I don't want to turn my blog into quick blurbs about my day-to-day life (not that there's anything wrong with that, but that's why I'm on Facebook), I'm going to call it quits. So even though I have many more things that I feel passionate about, you'll never hear them. Sorry, folks. You'll just have to live with my one-liners about Lindsay Lohan suing for $100M dollars because she likes milk.

Thanks to all who shared this valuable lesson with me today. We'll all be happier if I say nothing and let the world happen around me, for better or for worse...well, all but one of us. :(