your wrong

there are certain blogs that i read that, that...

hm. how do i say this?

there are some people i know who have blogs. i read the blogs because i know the people. and, um,

ahem,

the blogs reveal their GREEEEEEAT ignorance. i mean, it’s really bad. it’s like, um, hoo boy!

now how can i say this is objective and not just me being judgmental? well, i could send you links to said blogs but that would not work for some obvious reasons. let me say these things and let you decide for yourself. there are some very simple observations or known facts presented as great revelations. there are some points of common knowledge that are major questions for these people. there are some glaring spelling and word choice errors. i’m talking homophones for very common words (used by elementary school children) being substituted for one another that have completely different meanings or that are just plain wrong (even worse than two, too, and to). that’s just one example. and these people are supposed to be adults. college graduates. these sort of errors are in “arguments” that are supposed to be intellectual and maybe to sound intelligent?

and then one day i was reading one of these blogs and it occurred to me. i put my hand over my mouth. “oh my gosh. this is meant to be advice. you think you’re wise.”

that clinches it. i have passed judgment on them when i oughtn't have. i need more grace, more mercy.

i must be very careful, for some may say something similar about my blog(s). i don’t bother with proper grammar or syntax, i don’t captialize, i start sentences with conjuctions and end them with prepositions. oh, i know. i don’t even bother to try to write well on a blog. i just write. my blog may come under criticism for that. whatever. this is different. this is just wrong in all its wrongness.

oh and i never said i was wise.

now what should i do? we are friends after all. should i write them and say, “hey, you used the wrong word in this one sentence and it really makes you look stupid, maybe you should think about changing it?” wait, no i can’t do that because i’ve done it before (gently as i could, with more kindness than the above) and it was a point of sensitivity, and the person blew up and broke down, and what a horrible person i am for nit-picking and fault-finding and criticizing! i guess i have to sit idly by and let these people make fools of themselves.

the same way i have been allowed the freedom to make a fool of myself on my blogs.