• wishyouwerehere said on Jun 06, 2009....

  Puke it all out CW, and put it in a draft instead of deleting it.  Or keep a journal that no one else gets to see where you can really pour your heart out uninhibited.  I agree with you - writing can be very cathartic ... and going back to see where your past perspectives were can also be very helpful.  So don't delete!
   
  Hugs - Wishy

• soaringraven said on Jun 06, 2009....

  I find that I do the same thing much of the time.  Have from the beginning actually.  If I had posted every damnable thing I wrote I might just risk being carried away in a basket.
   
  soaring

• queenparanoia said on Jun 06, 2009....

  yes. blogging is a theraphy for you cw... so just blog it out... and if you feel better when you delete the post afterwards then ddo it... it's a form of release... ;-)

• MsStar39 said on Jun 07, 2009....

  Getting it out rather then keeping it bottled up inside is best.

• bluegum said on Jun 07, 2009....

  yes it makes a lot of sense to me i carry sadness also and i do try to be positive and not let it win . blue ps have you logged on to M.W .

• Twylarants said on Jun 07, 2009....

  Writing it out helps you make sense of it all, doesn't it?  Even if you delete it because you don't want comments or advice, doesn't it validate your feelings when you read it over?  It does for me, especially if I write without thinking about what I'm going to write, not caring about punctuation and things like that.

• GracieLee said on Jun 07, 2009....

  it's making perfect sense, no doubt.  i keep a diary.  just writing down my thoughts in the diary is a positive step.  writing down your thoughts does help, whether anyone reads it or not. 
  
  i'm going to say something weird now, but what else is new, pretty much everything i write is on the cusp of weird.  here it is.
  
  i believe in guardian angels.  i believe they influence your life.  i believe i have seen evidence of it in my life and that i'd be blind as a bat to miss it.  i believe that when you think you are writing to nobody, your guardian angel reads what you wrote and is there to help you with it.  add that thought to the mix.
  

• dyingman said on Jun 07, 2009....

  Why? Afraid of being judged by faceless, nameless readers? Fear of being recognized? It seems odd.

• CreativeWoman said on Jun 07, 2009....

  Wishy,
  I have a stack of journals hidden in a drawer that are close to 20 years old.  I don't flip through them too often because they make me cry.  I've always felt on the outside looking in.
  
  I've liked blogging because people do chime in with opinions that make me think even they are hard truths to hear sometimes.  Occasionally, I don't put it out there because I don't think I'm tough enough to take it or maybe because I am ashamed of the way I feel.
  
  soaring,
  It's good to see you.  :-)  I understand how you feel.
  
  queen,
  It is a release.  That's for sure.
  
  MsStar,
  I bottle up too much sometimes.
  
  blue,
  Sadness can be really overwhelming sometimes.  What is M.W.?
  
  Tywla,
  Most of my rambles start out that way.  I have no idea where they will go.  I just write.
  
  Gracie,
  I don't think you are weird. I believe we each have angels around us too.  I've felt them at certain times in my life very clearly.  I never thought about them reading what I'm writing though.
  
  CW
  

• GracieLee said on Jun 07, 2009....

  i think the angel wants to help you and it reads what you write, and writing helps to solidify your thoughts, making it easy for the angel to understand.  then when you sleep, the angel talks to you and helps you with it, and you wake up with a shift in your thinking.  you're not alone.  we're not alone.  the help is just invisible because it is supposed to be.  so is god.  so are your dead parents or grandparents.  alive but invisible to us, all of them.  so is jesus, alive but invisible to us now.

• CreativeWoman said on Jun 07, 2009....

  dyingman,
  I've been here long enough that many are not faceless anymore.  If I were able to open up to people better, I probably wouldn't need the cathartic feel of this place at all.  Maybe I am odd.
  
  Gracie,
  I never knew that about angels.  I believe that about loved ones passed on though.
  
  CW
  

• Hegemone said on Jun 07, 2009....

  Makes sense to me, sometimes just letting it out, even if nobody is going to see it, is enough because it allows YOU to sort the thoughts instead of them remaining a dusty old jumble in some corner of your mental attic.  I've done it plenty of times before, needed to rant something out but did not feel like particularly sharing it, or sharing all of the details to it anyway. You do what works for you, there are no rules for what you can, can't and must or must not say.  ((((HUG)))

• CreativeWoman said on Jun 07, 2009....

  Hege,
  I know.  There has been something I felt I needed to write about, but was afraid to.  I finally blurted it out.
  
  CW
  

• wombat said on Jun 08, 2009....

  I write a lot of posts that I delete at the last second, but it feels good to get it out if it's on my mind.  I know you are going through some emotional times, and I hope you will find peace within your heart and mind.

• CreativeWoman said on Jun 08, 2009....

  Thank you, wombat.  It is a bit freeing just to let it out.
  
  CW
  

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