Sometimes, You Just Need a Time Out

Posted on November 24, 2008
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Since starting this Web site, I’ve used it as a platform to share my life with strangers.
I use this blog as an outlet to keep myself writing, and as a safe zone, where I can vent, and leave a few hours later with my sanity intact.

But something I didn’t think about when I started this site, was that aside from the people I don’t know that visit, the people I love, will read my posts, too.
And even though there are times when the people I love make me want to poke my eyes out, they are still the people I love — and the people I would never want to hurt.

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to receive a very insightful e-mail from someone who loves me, and it forced me to take a little time out, sit in the corner with my dunce cap on, and have a little talk with myself about boundaries.

I often complain in my posts about other people not knowing when they’ve crossed a line, so consider this a post about me, shaking a finger in my own face.

I believe in the power of words, and that’s why I became a writer.
From now on, I promise to use mine, only for good.