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elvendollso a little constructive criticism fairy told me that my journal entries have been radiating ngative enrgy, and that they leave the impression of me bitching about one thing after then next rather then being introspective...
i didn't mean it like that...
rereading them is odd - i know i've got a biased view.
so - what do you think? do they come off as me bitching and complaining more often then not?
i didn't mean it like that...
rereading them is odd - i know i've got a biased view.
so - what do you think? do they come off as me bitching and complaining more often then not?
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Bitch all you want!
Date: 2000-10-09 09:30 am (UTC)So you complain a bit... so what? Those of us who know you don't mind.....
Bitch away!
Re: Bitch all you want!
Date: 2000-10-09 09:43 am (UTC)i guess what i want to know is if i come off as in i am complaining when i don't intend to...
like i've been told that my explaining my motivation in the instances when i am wrong comes off as me giving excuses rather then me trying to explain that i didn't mean the harm i caused...
and now that i'm aware of it i am trying harder to close in the gap between what i mean and how it is percieved...
and yeah, i will admit that i do more then my fair share of bitching...
but i think i've tried avoiding it in these entries, but my attempts to give background on a situation or my feelings may have come off as bitching, and i want to figure out where and how and stuff...
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Date: 2000-10-09 01:21 pm (UTC)It's yours, not theirs, and you have no obligation to anyone else really. Well..to a degree I suppose you do. Friends and all that, wouldn't be nice to write a journal bashing them or picking them apart methodically, but aside from that...you can do whatever you want.
Personally I think that, instead of criticizing what you write, people should thank you for letting complete and total strangers get a look at your life. You don't have to this, but you want to. So thank you for giving me a glimpse into your life that I might otherwise not get.
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Date: 2000-10-09 01:42 pm (UTC)but i think you misunderstood my motivation for asking the question - its not about whether my friends like my journal, but about my communication skills, the improvement of which is a motivation for keeping this journal online... if i come off as if i am bitching when i don't intend to, thats certainly something i'd like to pinpoint and work on correcting...
but i am really curious as to who you are... i can understand wanting to stay anonymous, but yulip@velvet.net is where to reach me off of LJ
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Date: 2000-10-10 08:12 am (UTC)I do get the impression from your writing that you're unhappy more often than not. But this is probably because most people don't have a wonderful day and then rush over to livejournal.com to talk about it. For the most part, journals are cathartic, and readers shouldn't expect to get a complete sense of a person just through their journal writing.
"Bitching," to me, would be complaining without any thought given to the causes and solutions. The introspection and extrospection that's going on in your head concerning the issues you write about is fairly evident, I find. You're just trying to find your way, and journaling the trip.
Just don't forget to follow up... if your write about something that was stressing you out on Monday, and it works out by Friday, don't forget to write about that, too, or you risk giving the impression that your life is an endless string of disappointments, failures, lost opportunities and missed goals.
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