A Thousand Faces Will Choose To Ignore
@joey_matthews (8354)
January 13, 2008 2:24pm CST
I've been listen to a band called "plus 44", I won't go into it to much but a line came from one their songs. "A thousand faces will choose to ignore" and for a second it made me think of this place.
Recently I started a discussion regarding "broadcasting" basically it was about people who choose to let their emotions get the better of them and start discussions which aren't really discussions in my opinion but "rants" venting their frustration and to some point the song made me wonder why don't more people choose to ignore things.
Firstly, I'll be the first to admit I should ignore more things than I actually do and I know it's a part of life but why do you ignore things and what makes you forget that it's best to ignore certain things we come across.
I guess for me, I can't accept rudeness and I know being rude back or making fun of it isn't the best way. It's a way we learn, I know I'll choose to ignore more things in the future as it annoys those who want the attention. this is something, i've also learned.
Will you be one of those thousand that turn away and choose to ignore this? or will you be one of the few, who give me the joy of reading such a response.
~Joey
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6 responses
@vjlenin (9)
• India
13 Jan 08
good response indeed, i would love to contract to the kind of the pages requested through this site. I had a very recent experience in Kochi, Keral India, where i practically found million faces i could never have recognized, still saw somewhere in India,
@RobinJ (2501)
• Canada
13 Jan 08
There are a lot of reasons to vent, and I have seen a lot of people vent on here. Including myself a few times if I remember correctly. they there are those that just have to have a say, good bad or otherwise. As for ignoring things I have found out that if I ignore some one who is asking for help, but in fact needs to do the work for themselves, I have no problem. I enjoy reading and posting on here for the most part and yes it is easy to ignore a lot of the stuff that is written on here.
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@joey_matthews (8354)
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13 Jan 08
Yes, that's true.
Some discussion I know it's best to "avoid", like ones about abortions or still births because people tend to voice there opinions over others, I've had mine stampt on but I just have to add my two sense.
Best thing comes to responding and not going back, least for myself.
~Joey
Thanks robin
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
13 Jan 08
There are things I can ignore and things I can't, to be honest. Most personal insults I can easily ignore, or anything that's just some kind of personal issue for me. However, when it comes to people saying things that affect larger groups of people, or spouting what I see as bigotry... then I can't ignore it. And I don't want to learn to ignore it, because while it might be very rare, once in a while I actually manage to teach someone to be more tolerant. :)
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 Jan 08
I try to ignore some things in my life that I cannot change and that bring me down. I wouldn't ignore you Joey. I like your discussions and your online friendship. I read your discussions and respond to all of them that I possible can. I have alot of responses to make to others who responded to my discussions too. That takes a long time to do also since I work alot of programs and I have a family to take care of also. I enjoy it though.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
14 Jan 08
I am not sure joey. It depends on what's the person's mind I guess.
SOme people are more private than others, some people get upset easier, some people have to talk about what's upsetting them.
I - that always talk about balance - tend to go from one extreme to the other. First I ignore smalls things and big things alike - not exactly ignore, but just keep it bottled up. And then therer are times when even small things trigger me and it all comes out in a big rant LOL
I don't let small things get the best of me in here though, I mean my rants are usually about personal things that affected me but not necessarily things happening here.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
13 Jan 08
The kind of discussion you mention is what I know as a "Vanity Post" and the etiquette on those is that if one contributes broadly in a forum or program such as myLot it is permissible to interject a few vanity posts over time, but that the bulk of one's discussions should have a bit more substance. I think the same is true of responses. It is ok, I hope, to horse off, I mean digress, or act goofy in responses as long as one does not do it all of the time.
I ignore things on occasion and other times am over-confident enough to think I can turn them into an opportunity to be witty or to teach somebody something.
Often after replying to somebody and hitting "post response" I have second thoughts, but then the person PM's me as says that was just what s/he needed to hear. Sometimes not, lol.
