You go girl!

Let it go. If you can't get over your goggles being stolen, you prolly need to get into therapy and resolve the issues with your mom's death.

sorry about your mother. i've always found comfort in forgiveness. i also think it's ok to be upset about being stolen from, regardless of the items significance. re: Poison, dnftt

people suck. sorry.

neutrasweet, perhaps I was a bit brusque, but I wasn't trolling. This kind of reaction to the loss of ten dollar goggles is a pretty fucking obvious indicator of some much deeper issues, especially with this line: "I have focused all my pain, anger, and sadness into working out, and even more so, swimming." If these issues don't get resolved, they could haunt Anon for years. Therapy is a good idea.

Oh please. If turning your hurt into something positive for your life isn't constructive, I don't know what is. How do you know the person isn't already undergoing therapy? Either way, being upset about having something stolen from you is valid no matter how small or large.

Sure, it's valid. Writing a screed about it for public validation is a whole nother kettle of fishes.

Public validation, or public warning to the person who stole?

Yeah, no one should write anything for I, Anonymous, ever. Clearly anyone that willingly shares their outrage against hilariously pathetic acts of theft in public must be broken.

To the author of this particular I, Anonymous, I would like to suggest the following; Masturbation. Angry angry masturbation. You need to keep your base emotions private, and since masturbation as an act is wonderful for releasing an excess of base emotions, it's the perfect opportunity to ensure you keep your mouth shut and your stress low. Do it until you bleed. Do it, until you don't care anymore.

Yeah, ellis. Public validation. I'm sure bitching about your mis-directed emotions here is a great free substitute for grief counseling.

Mr./Ms. Kittyface . . . you are either boring and humorless, or bad at internet trolling. If it's the latter, you should maybe cast your nets in deeper waters, like yahoo news groups, or freerepublic.com. What you're looking for is someplace where dumptruck skulled idiots are willing to post opinions and they're willing to flip out when you say obnoxious/preachy things . . . the ire you stir in their hearts will be much warmer and satisfying.

I'd back poisoned. It's terrible that the stuff was stolen, but it's just stuff. Sounds like some grief counseling may be in order. It's true that holding on to issues like a death can result in a toxic, deadly situation.

Exactly, it's just stuff. Obviously when the I,Anonymous was written, the things were just stolen and it was still fresh on the mind. You insinuating the person hasn't taken any further steps in the grieving process, and ranting online/to I,anonymous about some pool things being stolen as a form of "free counseling" is completely absurd. Being upset about things being stolen, is the most common I,Anonymous topic. And that is the topic here, not the grieving process or how far along the person is.

Yeah, it's the topic at hand, and it's one the comes up all the fucking time. Take a look back through the history of this place, and you'll see that we take them to task for "i, anon's" like this every single time it happens. This seems different, hence the call for looking into underlying causes instead of just taking the piss out of them. I'm not sure how that makes me a bad person.

Why so serious?

Troll, overly earnest killjoy, blah blah fishcakes. Make up your mind, dude.

So get a new cap, and goggles. Move on. For fucks sake.