Critical, critical, critical

Megan, aside from being one of my favorite bloggers, also understands me and my existential problems.

Here it is, and the new policy. If you MUST make a critical observation (I don’t mean critical in the sense of negative, I mean critical in the sense of analytical.) because you MUST or you will DIE, then before you do, you must tell me about something affirmative. You must tell me about a feeling you had, or something you built or cooked or improved. Counter your relentless thinky-ness with a genuine experience of some sort. Something you saw. Something that actually happened and changed the world or moved you. Criticism is second-hand evaluation of something a different person did or felt or thought or made. No more of that unless you compensate by offering your own creation.

I think I'm going to start trying to do that in real life. Whenever I start to talk all critic-y, I'll first recall something generative. I hope I can do it.