the last three weeks have been particularly hectic, stressful and sleepless for the editorial team where i work. but that is normal in that office. what isn't normal, and for which i take offense, is when a visitor has such cheek to edit your work.
the visitor, i shall name F for Feeling, happens to be a friend of a couple of my officemates. on his own, F is talented. i saw F's editorial cartoon. juvenile, but not bad. i am told F is also a writer, though i have not had the chance to read F's work. (but why should i have, i am just a writer.)
given that F was 'requested' to 'check out' my work the first thing F should have done was to ask what the work is based on, what it is about, etc. in short, to put one's self in the proper perspective. F did not. instead, F took to the task with much gusto. (witnessed by other officemates.) and i have proof. F's 'editorializing' was returned to me.
oh well.. maybe i should learn from F's, errrr, confidence. if the situation were reversed, i would have politely declined as i would have deemed myself not in a position to edit something i know nothing about - without first asking. but then, i am of a much older generation. and to quote dylan: things have changed. indeed! and much of it is perception. when is confidence, impertinence?
ahh, youth! tsk tsk tsk.
2 comments:
well, I for one, have no patience at all.. not even the restraint.
Let's face it, F is dumb, arrogant, and has a face full of duh.
hehe.
from a jesuit university, not dumb surely! i too am a product of that system. a generation ago its standards were impeccable. F is a product of a generation that has lost the importance of one important word in their vocabulary - responsibility. or should that word be - prudence?
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