Comments on: wearing melancholy https://thisfish.com/wearing-melancholy/ Found the bike. Not changing the title. Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: ruby https://thisfish.com/wearing-melancholy/#comment-6509 ruby Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:05:26 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=855#comment-6509 <p>you are sweet and wonderful. i love your blog and so do the 55 people ahead of me. don't worry about the rest.</p> you are sweet and wonderful. i love your blog and so do the 55 people ahead of me. don’t worry about the rest.

]]> By: anonymous https://thisfish.com/wearing-melancholy/#comment-6508 anonymous Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:38:22 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=855#comment-6508 <p>Here's an anonymous "thank you for having such a great blog and fine and witty brain" note. Anonymous is powerful, isn't it? Especially angry horrible anonymous from strangers.</p><br /><br /><p>Okay, I'm an anonymous stranger visiting your blog for the first time -- someone jumping in from the cyberworld who only wishes you have a fine old time and enjoy life. And that you have better luck with the new BC pills. </p><br /><br /><p>--anon.</p> Here’s an anonymous “thank you for having such a great blog and fine and witty brain” note. Anonymous is powerful, isn’t it? Especially angry horrible anonymous from strangers.

Okay, I’m an anonymous stranger visiting your blog for the first time — someone jumping in from the cyberworld who only wishes you have a fine old time and enjoy life. And that you have better luck with the new BC pills.

–anon.

]]> By: mickey glitter https://thisfish.com/wearing-melancholy/#comment-6507 mickey glitter Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:05:14 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=855#comment-6507 <p>well, obviously whoever wrote the unfan letter needs to find a way to another planet, because for someone to send *you* something mean and nasty must be because they're not human. you are great! i read your blog every day because it's one of the best i've found; your observations are just filled with so much truth, it hurts sometimes. and your writing is incredible!</p><br /><br /><p>so, i'll pass along what a good friend of mine used to tell me: don't let the turkeys get you down.</p> well, obviously whoever wrote the unfan letter needs to find a way to another planet, because for someone to send *you* something mean and nasty must be because they’re not human. you are great! i read your blog every day because it’s one of the best i’ve found; your observations are just filled with so much truth, it hurts sometimes. and your writing is incredible!

so, i’ll pass along what a good friend of mine used to tell me: don’t let the turkeys get you down.

]]> By: Lady Crumpet https://thisfish.com/wearing-melancholy/#comment-6506 Lady Crumpet Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:09:11 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=855#comment-6506 <p>This is your space to explore whatever thoughts or ideas are important to you, whether it's what's going on with your family or your job or your love life or the pair of to-die-for shoes you saw in a window. Perhaps the writing is more of a challenge now because you're not as anonymous as you used to be when you started the site. Certainly your site has gotten more attention the more of us find out, and link to, and visit you here. And sadly, there are always going to be people out there who are jerks. But they don't matter, especially when they're just making anonymous cheap shots. Real people can have disagreements or criticisms with each other if they are willing to be honest with and respect each other - and if they are friends they can even remain friends.</p><br /><br /><p>For most of us this is the only way we know you - and even then most of us realize that what you write here doesn't completely represent the whole person that you are in life. You will never please everyone all of the time. I don't think that's ever been your intention here. Between the adoration and the venomous bile there are many real people who connect with you. </p><br /><br /><p>From my own experience I know it is hard to ignore negative remarks and it's easy not to believe in the positive ones, but the only standards you can live by are your own. What we think, what they think, it ultimately doesn't matter. I don't mean to say that it's easy to go about our lives, to be comfortable in our own skins, but that's what life is about - figuring out who you are. That we get to read about some of that, because you are willing to share it, means a lot.</p> This is your space to explore whatever thoughts or ideas are important to you, whether it’s what’s going on with your family or your job or your love life or the pair of to-die-for shoes you saw in a window. Perhaps the writing is more of a challenge now because you’re not as anonymous as you used to be when you started the site. Certainly your site has gotten more attention the more of us find out, and link to, and visit you here. And sadly, there are always going to be people out there who are jerks. But they don’t matter, especially when they’re just making anonymous cheap shots. Real people can have disagreements or criticisms with each other if they are willing to be honest with and respect each other – and if they are friends they can even remain friends.

For most of us this is the only way we know you – and even then most of us realize that what you write here doesn’t completely represent the whole person that you are in life. You will never please everyone all of the time. I don’t think that’s ever been your intention here. Between the adoration and the venomous bile there are many real people who connect with you.

From my own experience I know it is hard to ignore negative remarks and it’s easy not to believe in the positive ones, but the only standards you can live by are your own. What we think, what they think, it ultimately doesn’t matter. I don’t mean to say that it’s easy to go about our lives, to be comfortable in our own skins, but that’s what life is about – figuring out who you are. That we get to read about some of that, because you are willing to share it, means a lot.

]]> By: anon https://thisfish.com/wearing-melancholy/#comment-6505 anon Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:40:05 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=855#comment-6505 <p>You come across quite bitchy sometimes and you are so young. Perhaps this is why you get hate mail.</p> You come across quite bitchy sometimes and you are so young. Perhaps this is why you get hate mail.

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