Allow me to clarify: today was my first visit to the CopyBlogger website. The writer produced a very strong argument regarding how people trying to promote their service sucked, but then branched into the topic about how all of the naive aspiring bloggers and writers must immediately become a better writer, or stop writing immediately to save the sanctity of the Internet. Maybe there is a sea of people spouting nonsense on the internet, but I have yet to find any. It must be the result of lousy searching techniques.

You are Jack’s self-fulfilling prophecy.

Although I do not read many amateur blogs, I would like to point out how poorly written material is capable of holding valuable information. Commenter number sixty-one, (see http://www.copyblogger.com/the-first-rule-of-copyblogger/#comment-780055) Antti Kokkonen, made a more valuable contribution: saying how if we think the writer should improve his or her skills, then perhaps it would be better to help them improve. For those new to this concept, this involves saying why we feel that way, and use the Internet to provide them with a link to a resource they can reference. Who would have thought. However, that would take extra effort, which would be really hard. We must take into consideration the article was about how people are too lazy to improve. Maybe they are uninformed, instead. If you really care about your experience in the world, maybe you should try to improve it, in contrast to sitting around, complaining about it. My point: If we do not help eachother how are we supposed to progress forward?

Playing Devil’s Advocate

However, Sonia is a professional writer; thus, I should not challenge this way of her professional thinking. Instead, I will complement it and expand upon it. If you have a passion for something, but you are unsure of your abillity to do it well, then there is absolutely no point in ever trying. Ever…Right? After all, what is worse than failure? It is almost like you never tried. Haaaah.

Please bare with all of my cynicism and  sarcasm

So all of you researchers, who may never find the answers you seek; or programmers who might not be good at programming yet; or artists who are not yet appreciated; or entrepeneurs who are still trying to find that niche: give up. OH: wait, then there are all of the philosophers, photographers, musicians, poets, etc–all of you–who have not yet rivaled the likes of the masters in your field: save yourself the time and give up. There are no guarantees the efforts, time, and money you poured into your passion will go anywhere, so do not bother those ‘professional people’ with your efforts to do something with your life, they will just get all bent out of shape and write complaints all over their blogs. Save us some time: Go home and play nintendo; and please do eat a lot of cake, while you are at it. Then you can be fat, unmotivated, AND unsuccessful. In the process of doing so, you prevented the possiblity of anything extra being added to their horribly stressful lives.

Please break the rules, and say to hell with ‘rule number one.’

Now please, tell me the above is wrong. I would like someone intelligent–no, anyone, to tell me how many failed attempts it took to push something great out into this world. There will be only one rule, and that is do whatever it is you believe in; and try your damn best at it. Listening to all the nay-sayers, skeptics, critics, and quitters will not make anything new happen. Maybe you will be dead in the ground someday, and someone might stumble upon something you did. Maybe that proclaimed piece of shit will be inspirational to them. Maybe that trash will make everyone’s life better with whatever they do with it. The fact that you did not do a good enough job, or have the means to accomplish it, does not mean it is worthless. Keep trying to do your best. Do it because you enjoy it; and do not let their bullshit get in your way. The only reason you would ever need someone else’s approval for your work is if you did not appreciate yourself for who you are. Look at what that failure named Leonardo Divinci did, for example.

Regarding those people who only care about image:

Silly labels, degrees, higher numbers than someone else on trivial GPA documents, or even money in your pocket, will not define who you are, and it does not define what you do. They say presentation is everything, and I guess it is…if you are thinking with your ape brain. I enjoy finding the meaning in things. I think my life would be empty without it. Maybe you do not have the time for it. Maybe I should make a slideshow for you instead, and I’ll even give it a good background image to get your attention. I will wrap this up by saying there are no copyrights or copylefts on this, or any of my articles; and you may distribute it freely to spam the internet and be a horrible failure.