I have had a really hard time opening this blogging window this week. I really love blogging. It's one of my hobbies and has been so much more to me than a blog. It is part of my self-improvement technique with writing and as as outlet. I always feel that I have the right to write whatever I'd like. However, when I take that right, there is a counter-right of those reading. They are able to have any opinions that they'd like.
Over the past few months there has been some negative feedback on a few of my posts. Usually I feel like I can be a tough girl, that's a lie. I am actually not tough at all, but I can be pretty good at ignoring negative influences in my life. Then there are other times when it hits me hard and I start to think that maybe I'd be better at writing in a journal that I tuck away in my nightstand and I don't put it out on the internet for everyone to read and for opinions about. I am sure that there is a point when every blogger starts to feel that way.
I mostly opened this window to say, hi. I miss writing. I have felt a void in my daily life and normal routine this past week and I wanted to do what I do best... write about it. In the meantime I will develop tougher skin. Maybe at one point in my life I'll be so emotionally buff that I won't even need to delete the negative comments. I'm not there yet though.
How do you deal with negative feedback?