Emptying Your Head
You know the funny thing about emptying your head? When you expose your thoughts for others to read, judge, and react to, you have to be damn careful.
Tonight I decided to try and give somebody I have followed for years a different perspective on the situation they find themselves in. Call it sitting on the fence – call it being an idiot. I should not have done it.
Sometimes we think we can imagine what it might be like to stand in somebody else's shoes. We can't. We really can't. It's so easy to imagine – to read the little somebody chooses to share on the internet, and to construct a picture of their life in our minds eye, and to think we might know the world they live in.