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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Gilda
If I'd known it would have this effect, I probably wouldn't have deleted the posts. It's just one of those things that I do sometimes, not thinking that it might have consequences for other people. I do that sometimes, which is something else I need to work on, paying more attention to how my behavior affects other people around me.
But I do think that, if, as Cynthetiq suggests, those posts had value because they represented my honest feelings at the time I wrote them, then so to does my deleting them the next day represent my honest feelings at the time that I deleted them. They were little more than a confused mess anyway, and the posts to which I was responding are all still there, and I think that those are going to be far more valuable in the long run than the confused mess I made of things in what I wrote in response.
Anyway, once again, I apologize for doing that. I had no idea anybody would care one way or another.
Gilda
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Yes, that could be the case. While you say there were a confused mess, they provided some of us an insight into how you think, a window into the mind of an introvert. Again, many people have come through here and read your posts and say that they resonate with something you stated. Some have come from those posts that you deleted, some from the organized thoughts.
When I took the Foreign Service Workers exam there is a part that is an essay and it's to be completed in pen. Specifically stated as PEN. People asked if they could use pencil, people were very uneasy about the fact that they had to compose and write something on the fly in pen. Sure you could use scrap paper to help orgainze your thoughts but ultimately what you submit has to be well written and in pen. For some reason people are uneasy about permanence.
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