Sad is a bad word
Posted by Stuart at 03:40 PM on October 04, 2003By the way, as I write this journal, it is almost impossible for me to forget that this is a public journal and is indexed by Google. Because of this I chose my topics and my words carefully. This website is a view into my life and my thoughts, but of course I don't live in a vacuum. The people I write about (this week it has been cheating students, boys in skirts, Mrs. Regaspi and Jeff above) are real and perhaps aren't as interested in being portrayed in a public way. I guess that is the dilema for any autobiography.
In each of these cases, I would have described my emotions as "sad". I am sad that a boy is punished for living life as a girl. I am sad that a student felt that she had to cheat on an exam. I am sad that two very special people are no longer with us. (Although as I write it now, I realize that "sad" is not a very good word to describe the way I feel about these very different situations. But my working vocabulary is failing me now.)
In any case, I guess what I am trying to say is that I feel like I have to apologize a bit for writing my thoughts here, both because I am writing about real people and I am talking about negitive emotions. I certainly mean no harm by typing these words. But it is a part of my life and so now it is a part of my weblog.
