gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Penguin - Exploding)
[personal profile] gridlore
A former friend is now dead to me. She has gone over the line this time, and I can not, will not, forgive her.

Date: 13 Sep 2006 14:37 (UTC)
kshandra: A cross-stitch sampler in a gilt frame, plainly stating "FUCK CANCER" (Bunny - Phbbt)
From: [personal profile] kshandra
"I'm sorry, but I can only deal with things as they were, not as you would like to remember them."

Even that I might be able to handle ($DEITY knows I've been guilty of it myself in the past). This is a case of making mountains out of molehills to make better soundbites out of her story.

Date: 13 Sep 2006 16:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com
Well, in fairness, I don't think what happened to her was a molehill. I think it was wrong of her to say what she did, and what happened that day certainly devastated other lives in a way it did not devastate hers, and saying what she did was an exaggeration at best, so I can see why the saying seemed to fit. But "molehill" trivialises what did happen to her just a bit too much, I think.

Date: 13 Sep 2006 16:25 (UTC)
kshandra: A cross-stitch sampler in a gilt frame, plainly stating "FUCK CANCER" (Default)
From: [personal profile] kshandra
Fair enough - a mountain out of a foothill would perhaps be a better representation of scale. Not something you ignore, but not something that should be overstated. (Claiming the events of the day had a direct effect on my personal life, when what it directly affected was my professional livelihood, would have been molehill territory.)

Date: 13 Sep 2006 16:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com
Yes, that makes sense. Thanks for the re-phrasing.

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