I am sorry if you felt that my remarks were directed personally. I actually didn't read your take on it, because I found the phrasing of the passage quite negative, and I read a couple of quite lengthy mea culpa maxima posts about it from other people on my flist who I think are quite together most of the time, and I found that a bit shocking.
Of course I relate to the feelings of self-doubt and so on that the passage expressed (and quite particulary at the moment due to something I'm not going to get into right now). However, I didn't take the positive slant on it that you did - for example, the kind of fellow-feeling that might be experienced by other people stating they felt in that same boat literally did not not occur to me.
I think my reaction to it was (and still is, frankly) that it seemed to be an unnecessarily depressing piece, and didn't offer any perspective on examining the positives in one's life as well as the lacks. Perhaps I just suffer from Pollyanna syndrome. However, again, my criticisms are more at the tone on the piece, and that even though I'm a fuck-up at times, the sentiments as a whole don't apply to me - not so much that I'm dissing anyone for feeling it might apply to them at present.
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Date: 2007-06-27 10:43 am (UTC)Of course I relate to the feelings of self-doubt and so on that the passage expressed (and quite particulary at the moment due to something I'm not going to get into right now). However, I didn't take the positive slant on it that you did - for example, the kind of fellow-feeling that might be experienced by other people stating they felt in that same boat literally did not not occur to me.
I think my reaction to it was (and still is, frankly) that it seemed to be an unnecessarily depressing piece, and didn't offer any perspective on examining the positives in one's life as well as the lacks. Perhaps I just suffer from Pollyanna syndrome. However, again, my criticisms are more at the tone on the piece, and that even though I'm a fuck-up at times, the sentiments as a whole don't apply to me - not so much that I'm dissing anyone for feeling it might apply to them at present.