Does hate-mail make you famous?

I like blogging. 

It's like a public diary that people read. 

You kind of can get to know a lot about a person 

based on how they write

or

what they write about. 

I don't write about much,

at least not lately. 

I write about life, 

moving, military spouses, 

having children, and sometimes for fun I'll throw a recipe 

or something like that in there. 

I got some good hate email today. 

It was interesting

because

well... I didn't know people hated me

or cared enough to tell me so. 

I'm a horrible person by putting things out there,

I'm going to ruin my husband's military career, 

I shouldn't be partial to one military branch over any of the others

and then the kicker was that I should stop whoring around 

and 

take care of my family.

LOL

Really? 

I found it amusing at best, 

but the laughter quickly turned to anger

and then fear... 

Like really 

who is this person with the gall to email me like this? 

Is blogging really a safe outlet now? 

Should I stop? 

I put my all into this blog. 

My happiness,

My pain, 

My good, 

My bad. 

All of me. 

Why? 

Because it's what I do. 

I'm on a desert island with no friends

hell, I can count all of my close friends on one hand. 

I'm extremely shy. 

I don't like being around a bunch of people,

as it completely drains me. 

I'm really intuitive 

and I have a 

very low bullshit tolerance meter

which isn't conducive

to making friends either. 

So I talk here. 

Where over 700 of my friends will listen

will give advice,

will cry with me, 

laugh with me, 

and 

experience life with me. 

I used to wonder about getting hate mail 

and 

what I would do about it. 

I now realize that it's not fun, nor funny. 

So to this email I just shrug 

and say to that person, 

if you don't like me 

the move on. 

I'm not asking you to stick around 

and 

critique my life. 

I do it enough already, 

so your ASSistance really isn't needed.