This brings up some interesting issues about mixing up public and private worlds. As soon as you use your own life as writing material and include people you know, it will effect those people one way or another if they know you are writing about them. It’s a bit like the measurement problem in science where the act of measuring changes the thing being measured. I think it’s one of the reasons we have had such strong social sanctions against reading other people’s mail or diaries. Your lovely searching insightful writing doesn't feel like this kind of transgression at all. But writing publicly about personal experiences that include others can still effect them in ways that expressing the same thing privately wouldn’t. ❤️
This brings up some interesting issues about mixing up public and private worlds. As soon as you use your own life as writing material and include people you know, it will effect those people one way or another if they know you are writing about them. It’s a bit like the measurement problem in science where the act of measuring changes the thing being measured. I think it’s one of the reasons we have had such strong social sanctions against reading other people’s mail or diaries. Your lovely searching insightful writing doesn't feel like this kind of transgression at all. But writing publicly about personal experiences that include others can still effect them in ways that expressing the same thing privately wouldn’t. ❤️
such an insightful point, Cali. Thank you, this is giving me food for thought <3
How funny life would be if we got things “right” all the time. Even the notion of righteous action is subjective. Be kind to yourself ❤️