Moving On

For most of my adult life I've had a pretty thick skin. I suspect this is due to the nature of my profession. After all when you spend the majority of your career working with children with serious mental health issues, you learn to let insults roll off your back. Consider the source and move on no matter who it is. The only exception to my ability to do this in the past has been during those rare instances when an adult directly and deliberately insults my intelligence or impunes my integrity. In those instances I could literally feel my blood pressure rising.

Over the past few weeks I've received emails and calls informing me of snide comments (and sometimes directly insulting remarks) made about me by someone online that does not know me and whom I do not know. Initially I admit I was a little irritated but not anything like I would have been even a year ago. Lately I've been more amused than anything by all this and have found myself laughing a bit with Rook and some of my friends over the things this individual has said. Even though he has insulted my intelligence and my integrity, he's not gotten an angry rise out of me. In a perverse sense I'm thankful to this man because he's helped me to realize I've moved past that weak area in my life.

So, thanks to all of you who gave me the "heads up" about this person and his comments but no more please. I have no need to defend myself to someone I don't know and for whom I do not hold the slightest shred of respect. You don't need to defend me either. Let's move on to better things.