chinwhisker:

I came in, drunk, and wrote 3 pages before I stopped, and threw it is the waste basket, all to say one thing that I offered for an answer to a question tonight. “We create our own problems.”

I've done that. I stay away from the keyboard, guns and financial advisors when I am "loose."

A month or so ago I began to write an allegory about our team at work. Fortunately I didn't send it to my boss, or show to anyone. As the last few weeks played out it became clear that one of our team members is a destructive force, and was targeting me as his next victim. If I had shared my writing with anyone, I would have created new problems, and when these things came to a head, my writing would have been the focus of discussion, rather than the poor behavior of others.

I think it well to have a release, to let things out of your mind in some way. But you don't have to express them openly all the time. Maybe just acknowledge that something is, and move on.

I enjoy your posts. You are explaining and testing status quo all the time. When you challenge like that, conversations tend to get long, and I expect it is stressing at times to be understood as you expect.

Thanks.