Hi there
I had the misfortune of putting my ‘real name’, first and last, on a television commentary website and now my name is forever embedded with some pretty ‘heavy’ commentary made about a certain politician and a current political situation being experienced in our country. It’s okay. I am happy to stick to my convictions in the face of adversity however, I need to be more careful in future .. hence .. the advent of ‘tongue tiger’. This is my avenue to express my heartfelt feelings about issues in my world with the passion that democracy should allow me to have without persecution. However, we all now know the dangers of expressing our true feelings on the net and having your real name attached to it for all in sundry to see .. especially when employers use the net vigorously to scavenge information about you and probably using what they find out of context to make judgements about what sort of a person you are. I happen to think that there is a raw honesty to be found in the heat of passion. Brutal words, expletives even, provide the environment of true conviction for the point you wish to make. But at some stage we do regret when our ‘tongue tiger’ gets out of control and our passionate words can slay a persons ego beyond the point we wished to make in the first place. I have done that. Not because I am a callous insensitive cow but because my feelings and beliefs had been hurt so much, I reached around to fashion a quick word fireball and then threw it as hard as I could without really thinking. I know this about myself and this is why I have chosen to communicate with my baby’s Dad via emails making us responsible and accountable for all we say. For the most part we stick to the issues at hand and spare our daughter the vitriol of a relationship gone wrong.
So .. I will share this site with my friends and if others wonder onto this path then .. welcome. Have an opinion and say what you like .. use your name or not.. just know that the tongue tiger is always crouching, ready to pounce.