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I am a hot head in person with a pretty short and unpredictable fuse and I occasionally get in a bind because of that weakness, as much as I fight it (with varying degrees of success)

Writing is a bit of an alternative route for me, since it is easier to take a deep breath.

I sometimes think there are people for whom the exact opposite is true. For those people, if confronted face-to-face, they would be (on the surface) somewhat agreeable and meek, but behind a keyboard, they feel license to be aggressive and abusive.

I strive hard to be consistent and speak to people from behind my keyboard as I would try to do in a face to face discussion. With the occasional thing I have written on this very forum in the last 17 years that might be hard for some people to believe, because I have indeed been uncivil. But, if someone gets my dander up in a face-to-face, I have the potential to boil over in an instant into a disagreeable state. I don’t like that in myself, and try to do better.

I fail occasionally, but I do try to pick myself up, mend fences where I can, and do better.