I just wrote a post about an article I read online. It was about the fact that in Germany a lot of well-educated people don't have children. I wrote my opinion about it, but then decided against publishing it and saved it as a draft for the time being.
Why won't I publish this post?
There are several topics that I decided I won't write about on my blog. In general those topics are politics, religion and things like that.
It's not that I'm not interested in these topics or that I'm not interested in other people's opinions. But I realized that these topics are fruitful ground for misunderstandings. In my experience discussing such difficult topics on the internet almost alwas goes wrong and is very likely to backfire. People end up insulting and hurting each other. Although I am pretty sure the people I know reading my blog are not very likely to be like that, I will do most anything to keep my blog free from joyless discussions. If that includes censoring myself on certain subjects, so be it.
So, what I wrote about that article I read will most likely stay a draft and be deleted after a while. I can live with that.
So, brando, see, I'm just like you. I let go of the snark, because I am honestly afraid to offend some stranger. Once again I get the feeling that I'm just too nice and harmony-addicted for this world.
