Woot! I got my first piece of hate-mail over at the official website today :) Some lady actually took the time to go out of her way and write this really LOOONG e-mail talking about what a joke I am, how much of a hack writer I am, and etc. etc. etc.
She's just upset because I get to travel around Europe with my wife 4-5 times a year and she's stuck in an environment where her 80k a year barely manages to pay the mortage, car payments, and her kid's health insurance. I didn't chose your life for you, lady. You did!
Jealousy is an odd beast. I've never experienced it. I have always had everything I wanted in life, but I also worked hard to get those things. If I see something, I go out and get it, however I need to. I don't begrudge someone else for taking a different route, or having a different path to success.
It reminds me of my last experience in the US. I dropped my mom off at Safeway and was circling the parking lot, not looking for a space, but just waiting for her to grab a few gallons of milk on Christmas Eve. I saw her coming out, so I pulled around to the entrance and happened to park in front of an empty parking space, at which point I was visually, verbally, and audibly assaulted by a woman who began honking her horn, flashing her lights, screaming out her window, and flipping me the bird, all at the same time.
This Christmas season, take a breather, folks. Understand that the world is a great big place and you are NOT the only person on it. Act like a douche-bag and people are going to treat you like one.
About Me
- T. W. Anderson
- Cancun, Mexico
- I'm a location independent expat who treats the entire world as my home. I teach people how to live like the locals in destinations around the world via Marginal Boundaries.
3 comments:
I love this blog post.
I've recently begun getting "hate mail" in the form of comments from trolls on my blog. It's my nature to get angry and start venting - but you make a good point. Just because people act like douches doesn't mean that I have to, too. :)
Hate mail is the Internet's form of telling you you've become a minor celebrity in some trolls' limited scope of vision. It's fun to keep for later viewing.
Ain't that the truth.
It simply boils down to E-envy. In their limited world view (tunnel vision) they only have one perspective. And when you prove that perspective wrong, using simple grade-school math, it's like their whole world was just torn asunder. It's almost like finding out your wife (or husband) was actually a man (or a woman) before you got married. Or something like that.
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