I, for one, am really saddened by the events of the past few days. So much of the negativity of recent posts is in essence, “airing of dirty laundry” and in some cases “personal attacks” that I feel have no place in our forum. Our forum is supposedly to support a “kids” organization and is read by many minors.

Do I support everything that individuals have to say and the battles they choose to fight? Absolutely not! But if I am strongly in disagreement I have a couple of choices to make. (I try to do this every time) Seldom, do I respond immediately to people I have issue with. I run the scenarios through my head, examining whether I feel strong enough about an issue to make it an issue. If I do I will try to gently persuade, perhaps publicly, that person to my line of thinking. If that fails I will take the issue up privately with that individual. Kind of the old bear bait should be honey!

I guess I am a victim of my upbringing. I was taught the value of the “Golden Rule.” I do care what others think of me and do not wish to be on the public scene of either calling someone out or being called out. (a recent event has really troubled me where I didn’t do this) Seldom am I confrontational … maybe to a fault.

Do we have people on our forum that are after the attention they get from posting? Maybe … maybe not … either way, I don’t really care, it is entertainment (sometimes informational) for me and I can choose to read postings or not. Perhaps we have a few people with thin skin and big toes but I still respect their opinion, whether or not I agree with it.

I am saddened … that I felt compelled to write this.