I really take offense to that…

I mentioned that I’m almost to 600 entries to Ron… and do you know what he said? “yeah but you write a lot of, if you will, dumb entries.” I can’t even believe he just said that. I don’t know, maybe they are dumb to him… maybe they’re dumb to everyone out there in the void we call ODland… but to me they all mean something. Whether that something is superficial or serious… whether it’s a rant about people, school, or it’s a description of a winter day… it’s a part of me. I’ve had every thought that appears in this diary. I don’t care how dumb it seems, my emotions, my soul, my gut feelings are held here. And 20 years from now, I’ll be able to read through my past and remember exactly who I was. Who I am.

The “dumb stuff” is what makes us human. You can tell so much more about a person by the dumb things they talk about… by the way they choose to “waste” their words, if you must call it that. What waste is to one person just illuminates a personality trait of another. It’s the perception of commonplace “dumb” events that shed light on the diarist. I love this diary and every entry in it. Even the shallowest of entries that I look back on shaking my head in shame or disgust… I love them all, because they are me.

I know he didn’t mean to insult me as much as he did, but in all honesty it did hurt, and I do take offense to that comment.