Asura.Murisia said: »
You are quite right Nik. I can't control people and what they do. Learned that a long time ago. I also learned not to give a damn what people say about me. So mockery or poor criticism is negligible when it comes to this. Though saying I'm doing the same thing? Did I call someone a failure? Did I call out any names at all? Insult anyone in particular? I think looking back through all these posts the answer is NO.
You wanted a reaction. Intent has nothing to do with it.
Look, you can't control the reaction. You can't control how people perceive your intentions.
You meant well perhaps. You used nice words. You didn't intend to insult anyone. But it doesn't work that way. I can still be insulted.
And you can still be angry with me even if I was only trying to help.
Your personal feelings are you own. But once you put them out there now they are ours and just look at how all of us idiots responded.
Personal conversation is a two way street and try as we might, goddess altana help us, some people still twist everything we say wrong.
I want to make a statement that can never be mistaken
paint it on a canvas carve those thousand words in stone
use it as a cornerstone for a tower that time can never crumble
build a shrine to hold my soul so that I can live forever.
but the words all change and lose their meaning
the canvas fades and the stone wear away.
everyone sees my words through their own perception.
it's the same as a painting. people all stand around gawking at it trying to understand it's meaning or understand what the artist was trying to say. but you can't. it's not possible for you to see things through my point of view. Nor can I see yours.
Not because I don't want to. But because I'm not you. I haven't been through all the things you have in the same way you went through them.
None of us understands each other. The best that we can hope for is understanding that we can't.
