Word To The Wise...

THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK.

Be really careful about what you say to people. And if you're going to tell an elaborate lie, be sure to keep track of what you say so that you don't contradict yourself and give yourself away. Don't let your anger run away with you. Vent as much as possible, but only to people you can trust with your life.

Mallory,
Same goes for bloggature. Be really, extra-specially careful when venting on the internet. Things you say have a way of getting to the people they're about. Believe me, I know. A few years ago, I had a blog like this one, except it was much more intimate and included the names of people I knew as well as extremely blunt posts. It was my diary, except online. I talked very candidly about how fake I thought several people at my school were, and I chronicled my adventures in emo-land. The thing is, I used actual names and talked about people as if they couldn't know what I was saying. Boy did that come back to bite me.

I got a call from 2 girls I had called out on my blog and was basically chewed out over the phone for being a bitch on the internet. I was also informed by several people I didn't even know that they were reading my blog too. It turned out that the majority of the grade above me was reading my stuff, along with a teacher or two.

The people I was talking shit about were reading my diary.

I took care of everything, but it still screws with my brain to know that people I had never met knew my darkest internal struggles and witnessed my constant lashing out at anyone who set me off in the slightest. So be careful.

With this blog, I'm not using real names, and I'm keeping it a secret that I even write it. Because I know if anyone from school read this they'd never see me the same way again, and I don't even know what my cheer coach would do if she knew how much I'm struggling right now.

So censor yourself, only a little. You're no where near as bad about that as I used to be, but I just don't want to see anyone get put on display like I was, because that was horrific. Just be careful.