Friday, October 17, 2008

A long, long time ago...

In this same universe I started a blog. It was actually on this same service, Blogger. The sum total of the blog was 10 posts over almost an entire year. To be fair--to me--I had a lot going on and blogging was not very well established.

Though the first post was in March 2004 and the last was in March 2005, among the three posts about the Red Sox, none mentioned the playoffs or their first World Series win in 86 years. Two mentioned snow. One was introspective. I present it here, for your consideration...

Proud curmudgeon?
On being a curmudgeon...I'm not sure I see anything wrong with it, but I don't know if it reaches a level of pride with me. I've been called a curmudgeon more than once since early college days. Sometimes it's almost a full-scale condemnation, other times a teasing jab. In any presentation, it is probably dead-on.

I'm a contrarian, too. That has more potential to irritate people, but is probably more of a source of pride than being a curmudgeon. Odd, that.

In a discussion today following my latest labeling as a curmudgeon, I raised the issue of being a contrarian. I've had more trouble accepting that label, but now I'm working on it as an asset. At least, that's what came out of my mouth. Can a contrarian soften the edges and pick their spots so that the conversational opposite values the criticism/feedback/alternate point of view. Seems logical. But can this contrarian?

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