Sure. OK. Prove it to me Barry. Keep having fun. Keep writing about the fun you are having. Even if the only way you can have fun is to justify it as getting back at your perceived hater tots. I don't care about the reason. I just want to keep reading about you having fun! So, please go have some fun, and then write me about it. On your mark, get set, GO!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > ...not that I'm picking on you or anything, it's just that I thought > you'd be a good person to aim this generic rap at, because I think > you'll get it, whereas many here will not. :-) > > Have you ever noticed that the Hater Tots on Fairfield Life tend to > react the most strongly, the most vehemently, and the most > out-of-control angrily when we post something creative, something that > reflects the FUN we're having in the moment of having written it? > > It's like something in them feels the need to warp reality into their > shadow view of it: > > [http://i.huffpost.com/gen/867522/thumbs/s-ILLUSION-large300.jpg?4] > In this case (the illusion), the chair is bent but as the result of > careful spotlight placement the shadow seems normal. The Hater Tots tend > to do the opposite -- they see an interesting reality, and transform it > in their minds (and in their posted words) into something misshapen, > something hateful. Go figure. > > I sometimes wonder about this phenomenon. It's not -- obviously -- as if > I lose any sleep over this pondering, or actually spend any time > actually pondering it, but I sometimes wonder what it IS in some people > that makes them believe that because they post something on an Internet > forum, someone OWES them for their efforts. > > They see something that someone else has written and they react to it. > Sometimes rather strongly. Rather than deal with the essence of what the > other person said that pushed their buttons and that put them into > reactive mode, they focus all of their button-pushéd wrath on the > person who said it. > > It's like on some level they're screaming, "How DARE they be having FUN > with their lives when we've spent so much time and energy trying to > prevent that? How DARE they get positive feedback from other posters > here *for* having FUN with their lives when we've done all that we could > possibly do over the years to "poison the well" and try to insure that > no one EVER views them positively?" Go figure. > > I've always identified with the title of a great little book about > American expats in Paris during the Golden Age of Expats. It was all > about the era that Woody Allen romanticized so well in his film > "Midnight In Paris," the era of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and > Cole Porter and Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Dali > and Bunuel and Man Ray and Josephine Baker together in Paris, the last > era in which the City Of Lights really blazed with creative light. I > always loved the title of the book. It seemed to get the point, > especially when it came to these free-thinkers, hounded and chased out > of their native lands, only to end up in a Better Place, having a Better > Time than those who had chased them away. > > The name of the book was "Living Well Is The Best Revenge." > > Here's my thinking...if the people who seem to have dedicated their > lives to hounding US, and to trying to make us feel as bummed out and > dead-ended as they must feel seem to be so powerfully affected by > indications that we're having a good time with our lives, we should just > strive to have even MORE of a good time with our lives, and to post > about these good times on FFL. > > Is that mean of me? Does that make me look like a sadist, or as some > would suggest, a psychopath? > > I think it just makes me look like someone who cares more about having a > good time than about the opinions of those who have never -- in some > cases given over 22, 550 posts to FFL -- demonstrated their ability to > have one. They can live in the past and base their lives and their > behavior on past impressions if they want to. I, for one, feel no need > to do so. Today is today, and damn!...it's kinda groovy. Given any luck, > it could turn into a groovy future. :-) > > > [https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/12155_5162658650\ > 73531_151404639_n.jpg] > > > <http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0064569/> >
