Never smile at a crocodile

…or argue with an idiot. Why? I’ll explain later.

Oh, my word.

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? How the dickens are you?

I have missed you. I won’t bore you with the reasons for my absence.

So… yes…

Giving not too much away, I’ll just say that even vampires have the occasional brain-frizz. Anyway, back to what I started talking about. I am so glad I don’t base my entire self-esteem on the incoherent ramblings of some talentless mouth breather. Ouch and sorry-not-sorry to anyone I may have just offended, or to anyone who has so graciously decided to be offended on behalf of someone else.

I never understand the reasoning behind why humans feel the increasing need to be so vitriolic online. How exactly does it improve their lives or increase their status? Is it truly a feeling of jealousy? Or the unintentional highlighting of their own inadequacy?

I looked recently on a website where lots of people had left comments on an item that had recently been posted. 99.9% of them left were very positive or at least attempting to be constructive (bless).

But, as with every tub of ointment, there was bound to be a self-righteous, pontificating fly. As a rule of thumb, the unkindest, snidest comments came from people who had absolutely no other way of creating a visible presence. They had no followers, no content, no likes, no form of the validation they so obviously craved. Or certainly only as many as could be counted on the fingers of one hand – if that hand belonged to a squid.

Apologies to any squid.

What is the plural of squid, by the way? Is it still squid? Squids?

I can only surmise that their sheer nastiness ( the keyboard warriors, that is, not the squid. I haven’t met any squid recently, but I’m sure they’re lovely) was an attempt at garnering some attention/sympathy/pity or they were trying to gather like-minded people into their circle in much the same way as a ship attracts magnetic sea mines.

Hey, if you can’t be the smartest person in the room, be the nastiest.

“Hell is other people.” Even more so when you’re a vampire!

I’m trying to stay away from those kind of humans.

I know of a few very confusing types. For example, in discussing a plan for an event, one such human agreed readily with all the suggestions, only to later turn around and disagree, and then went as far as to say they had never say anything of the kind, and that anyone who said otherwise was lying!

I also heard of one beleaguered person who, fearing for their own sanity after countless battle cries of ‘you’re imagining it’ and ‘I never said that’, decided to tape a conversation when discussing a deadline for a project. They asked the other person a question about it a few days later, only for the other to claim total ignorance of anything to do with. It went something like this:

A: “But we discussed this only the other day.”

B: “No, we didn’t. I’ve never spoken to you about that.”

A: “We had a meeting to discuss it.”

B: “You must be imagining it. I didn’t even know it was happening.”

They even played back the tape to the other person. They still denied any knowledge, despite hearing their own voice talking about it!

B: “I never said that.”

Ecuuuuse me?!

So, you can either spend a shedload of energy trying to keep those people happy, or you can spend the same energy (less, probably) on moving yourself forward.

Spoiler alert – You’ll never make them happy, so save the energy for some thing positive.

I’d love to hear any positive things anyone is doing to keep their feelings safe and well.

So I’m going to finish with a Top Tip…

Never, ever argue with an idiot.

They’ll drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

For anyone wanting to read all my rants in one place – including all-new exclusive stuff, then click below!

Volume 1 of my diary – why not start at the very beginning?

Volume 2 – more rants, musings and fairly useful advice

Volume 3 – things are afoot! The thot plickens…