I was surprised to recently see the following in a thread on a friends friends list on LJ. I was surprised because it's not about me/my blog, the person doesn't even know me (not to my knowledge anyway). It's about being asked to remove entries from an LJ (LiveJournal)

"What, is someone holding a gun to their head and forcing them to scroll back through pages and pages of someone else's journal? Just don't look if you don't wanna see it, it's not rocket science."

"comments might be understandable, within reason, and in very rare circumstances. (NJD: ie asked to be removed)
Entries though are personal.Ask them if they would throw their computer out, no DEMAND that they throw their computer out and see what they say to that.
Ask them, sorry, DEMAND that they cut off the third finger on their left hand, you'll get the same answer."

There were about 15 comments to the persons' entry regarding being asked to remove entries, all the comments were against the idea. Of course they are all biased - they all have LJs, but it seems so does the person who made the request.



He asks me again to remove my site (I'm sure he means just the blog), says he cannot sleep nor work, no vitriol this time. I've been there and I know it's not nice, if he needs to function and can't then he needs to do something about that himself. I once wrote in a poem "small respite is found in a pill, brings sleep, but doesn't fix the ill" - I wasn't functioning very well, not feeling able to cope, so I took myself off to the doctor. It didn't make the bad things go away, but it helped to allow me to be able to do the things that I needed to keep on doing - look after the kids and work. Work was very important for me (more so then because it was my own - our- business), was one of the things that kept me sane .... still is.

I don't understand the timing of the request .. if she/they have decided to part then it shouldn't matter what I write anymore. If they have decided to stay together it shouldn't matter what I write. I know the blog doesn't cause the fights cos they fight whether it is/was here or not. I don't understand what he thinks removing it now will achieve?
Note to self:-1.5 this morning, phew.