Things, stuff, energy, people, blah.

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Thought-provoking stuff I have read recently:
Repeating the obvious: energy levels, by redbird.
can we still be friends?, by the_siobhan.

Both posts explain thoughts & feelings I'm having at the moment, but in a much more coherent way than I'd've managed.

Also, someone called me tonight & suggested I should set up a "moan filter" on my lj, so people don't have to read it unless they want to. I'm loath to do that, because I only post friends-only if there's a need to (like, if I am already feeling afraid or attacked and need to know who can access the post), and I think it's useful to post publicly about health stuff, so other people who have got diagnosed with the same stuff can Google & find someone to talk to about it. However, if a lot of the "no one's reading my journal" feeling is coming from the fact that no one's reading it because they're sick of the moaning, or scared of the spikiness (have I really been that bad-tempered the past few weeks? I guess I must've been), I might have to.

Comments

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I say, just because it's not filtered, doesn't mean they have to read it. (A quick skim and skip--it's really not that hard).

Like you, I only post friends-only in specific circumstances (which are rare) and none of them have to do with someone not liking to read certain content. Frankly, that's their problem, and I'm not going to fix it for them by filtering.

You do use cut tags when you go on at length about something, and I think that's a suitable strategy for easing the comfort of some of your readers.

And, for the record, I don't particulary mind reading your "moaning".