Sticks and Stones may break my bones...

Anyone who ever came up with the phrase "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me" was full of shit. When someone we love tells us that we are a horrible person, that its over and they never want to hear from us again, then obviously words can hurt. No one is perfect, but one thing is for sure. Words can hurt and they do. Especially when they are written in a way the directly violates us as a person. When someone you don't get along with writes a nasty blog about you and all that they seem to know about you and post it on their blog for the entire world to see, its going to affect you. You may just shrug it off, you may just be like whatever, but there is not a doubt in my mind that you will actually get your feelings hurt. You sit there and analyze it. Anything they say may in fact hit home a little but most of the things they wrote have no truth to them whatsoever. So why do people seem to love to bag on one another? Maybe it is because they can't seem to find anything else more important to do. They try to make themselves feel better by bringing down another person. Normally when you talk shit about someone the person who seems to look the worst is the writer themselves. They don't understand that taking the time and effort to blog horrible things about someone, they are just justifying that they themselves are insecure and don't know who they are. Blogging to yourself is one thing, but blogging to something that is posted on the internet for the world to read and have it never be erased, that is a whole other thing. When you see a friend in danger, you say something. You tell the friend that they are in danger of something they themselves have not yet gotten to comprehend. You have been down that road, you know where it is going to lead, but still they don't listen. So you back off and tell yourself that they will learn it on their own. Then one day out of the blue they write a nasty blog about you saying all these untrue horrific things.  So what do you do? You move on.. You walk away from it. The person obviously has not yet started to understand what is about to happen to them in the months ahead, but you can't help them anymore. They are beyond help and no matter what horrible things they said about you, you still wish them well and hope they can figure out what the end of the story is before its too late. "Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me" It should be "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but blogs can never hurt me".