Sweetheart, seriously. Grow out the bangs and own the fact you're 29, and stop posting pics of yourself/friends on the internet. Rise above all this, because your life reads like one long, sad study in deep personal inhibition.

None of this is real, after all. And in the meantime, you are missing everything that is. I'm only here because I have to take breaks from studying medicine, you have no excuse at all.

[My response:]

This is regarding a guestbook entry sent in by this e-mail address on December 14, 2007.

In response to this:
Sweetheart, seriously. Grow out the bangs and own the fact you're 29, and stop posting pics of yourself/friends on the internet. Rise above all this, because your life reads like one long, sad study in deep personal inhibition. Wow, that's got to be one of the more ridiculous things someone has said to me.

Y'know, I don't know what you looked at that made you think you had any clue about who I am, but posting pictures of yourself/friends on the Internet and having bangs does not equal "sad." If you don't like the page or don't understand it, that doesn't mean you're fit to judge it. I'm really not sure what you think is inhibited about me, but by saying something like this you're only making it clear how very little you know about me. . . .

None of this is real, after all. And in the meantime, you are missing everything that is. I'm only here because I have to take breaks from studying medicine, you have no excuse at all.

If you have an actual criticism of my site, that's cool. But trying to shame me because my interests and goals don't match yours is pretty low. It's laughable that you think you have an "excuse" because you're "studying medicine," as if whatever else I could have going on must be worthless (no matter what it happens to be, not that you bothered to look into it before making a judgment).

I'd say more on the subject, but it's pretty obvious to me that you've taken troll lessons, and giving food to trolls doesn't appeal to me. I really don't have much else to say to someone who has decided what to think of me based on my hairstyle and ten years of photographs (as well as a heaping helping of premature assumption and a nice dollop of elitism). If it comforts you to think you're superior to me because you only get on the Internet to take breaks from your education, then enjoy your fantasy. But maybe one day it will occur to you that your goals and hobbies are not the only valid pursuits in the world. I'm a writer pursuing publication and enjoying the ride; I'm a decent singer and a developing artist with a widely read webcomic; I enjoy a very full and meaningful life in my social, creative, and career arenas. It's sad when people like you judge my life based on a slice of it that may or may not be representative, but it's even sadder if you use such judgments to try to convince yourself that you're better than me, or that you're in any position whatsoever to give me advice on how to live my life.

If you have a legitimate complaint about something on my site, feel free to offer it. But there's no need to serve it in such a spiteful, infantile way (while you attack my appearance, no less). I'll make it clear that I'm open to criticism, but what you offered here is on par with yo' mama jokes. So off-base, petty, and childish that it'd be amusing if it wasn't so sad. If this interaction is any indication of the way you approach and converse with other people, you are in for a very disappointing life.