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alpha0  ·  4084 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Got Mad So I Wrote A Poem




_refugee_  ·  4083 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I consider this link spammy.

In the future if you are interested in sharing quotes on Hubski I recommend actually citing the quote and author in your post instead of directing people to a personal Twitter account which then has the quote you want to share. I don't know if that's your personal Twitter account or not and you actually seem to share and comment on things, not just attempt to drive traffic towards, say, Twitter, so I'm going to mostly forgive you on this one. But I think it's also really important to remember that Hubski is "a place for thoughtful discussion" and you contributed absolutely none of that with your 'comment.'

For those not interested in being directed to Twitter in order to read a quote by someone, who isn't even the Twitter account holder, it is as follows:

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." - Cherie Carter-Scott

And in addition: I don't think anger makes one 'smaller.' It is an emotion. It's how you use that emotion that dictates whether you become a smaller or larger person. It's not healthy to use anger as the driving force in your life but I don't think using it to drive a poem is going to make me any 'smaller.' As for forgiveness - can't you be angry when the other person has done nothing that requires forgiveness? I may be angry at this person but they haven't really done anything to me except disappoint me because they turned out to be, well, themselves. What's there to forgive about that?

b_b  ·  4083 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe it was a mobile situation. Hard to copy and paste sometimes. A0's a quality, if not enigmatic, contributor; good people.

alpha0  ·  4083 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you for the social support, b_b. (... Rose Bud :-)

_refugee_  ·  4081 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey - feel free to follow up with whatever the rest of it was.

alpha0  ·  4083 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is not my account. There were 2 bits of into in the post. One was the quote ..