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Originally Posted by adecou  I wasn't trying to bicker. I actually, I enjoy debate, but don't think it should become personal... you're now implying things that I find hurtful, like that because I'm young I can't appreciate the beauty of the area or mourn the loss of such... no, I haven't been there for a few years, not by choice, but you wouldn't know that... and I respect you very much so for your POV, but I don't understand how I ever said or implied anything that would lead you to believe that because I don't like the idea of a FEST being inside that I have no respect for Katrina's effects on the Gulf Coast... if I have done so, please accept my apologies because that is the last thing I mean.
I didn't mean any disrespect when I mentioned the blog, I meant it quite litrally, I think you have a lot to say and I like the way you write. I don't know how to show true emotion through a web posting, so I guess I just have to sound like an idiot and type it out like this. |
I wasn't trying to be hurtful, and didn't mean that you wouldn't appreciate the area's beauty or mourn its loss. All I meant was that until you see it firsthand, what people tell you or even pictures and DVDs can't really prepare you for seeing it firsthand. I think anybody here would tell you that. It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with seeing it firsthand and not on video or pics.
I meant no disrespect at all and I'm sorry if I came off that way. I enjoy debate, and you're right, sometimes words on the Internet fall short of conveying meaning or intent. You don't even realize it until the other person reacts differently than you'd think based on what you meant, versus what they perceived from it.
I think a lot of us here are kind of shell-shocked about the whole Katrina and post-Katrina era and yet everybody is conditioned to NOT complain because everybody knows people who are worse off than they are. So you internalize until something that shouldn't even matter can make you snap for a moment.
Or maybe I should just say that about myself instead of lumping everybody else in.
So again I'm sorry for giving the wrong impression. I have a lot of respect for you from what I've read of your posts here and really did not want to imply anything otherwise.
I guess when I read your initial comment my reaction was that we're lucky to still even have CPR Fest, but I expressed that very poorly.
Sincere apologies to you from this cranky old dude!