The Delete Button
One of the reasons I really like blogging is because it provides me with a really cool edit button. I have a brain that just doesn’t know when to stop sometimes and on occasion I will dash off a really interesting post that I know will generate some great dialog, lots of comments and even the odd argument.
The post will somehow change the world in a way, at least that’s what my ego tells me and must be published. These are words that need to make it on to your computer screen. And so I type.
And the beauty of my blog is that I can save the post and just let it sit. Some times for days. And then I’ll come back to it later and take a look at it again and say, “What was I thinking?” I begin to see how other people would feel if they read that. I’ll begin to see the argument it would have created and the fiend in me that would have been fed by that argument.
And something in me will still want to post it, so I’ll let it sit for another week, stewing in the Wordpress database, fermenting to a ripe smell that resembles rotting flesh. And then I’ll revisit the post again and realize, “What was I thinking?” Only this time I’ll actually hit the delete button.
Aaah, the things I didn’t say. And this exercise makes me wish that I had a delete button for the words that come out that I realized I didn’t want to say. And this delete button would magically retrieve the words as they are flying across the table. Wouldn’t that be cool.
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Elle
