My heartfelt apology for the misunderstanding

I didn't want to have to write this post but I'm going to bust if I don't.

I started Tug's Life over 3-years ago. It was a place for me to write about my past childhood experiences and to keep my family up to date on what was going on in my life currently. I never intended for it to be read by anyone outside of my immediate family. I mean, heck, who really cares about some ol' East, TN boy and what he has to say? I guess over the past few years my personal blog gained a few regular readers. I thought that was pretty cool until something I posted one day was misunderstood by more than just one person. Read on....

It all started back in March of this year. I had not posted in over a month and finally had enough time to sit down and type something out real quick. I just put down my thoughts and what was going on in my life at the time. Some of those thoughts were about some things that had transpired at my church over the past year, some good, some bad. I did not name any names or make references to anybody but apparently some folks that read my post took it for granted that I was talking about them. Somehow my little innocent blog post that I wrote on my own little personal blog that was created for my own little personal family, angered a BUNCH of people. I've heard of things like this happening before but I never dreamed it would happen to me. I've had to endure a lot of negativity over the past couple of months. I've been sent angry emails, had mean hurtful things said and written about me, unfriended on Facebook (which I've since deactivated my account), and the list goes on and on...

All of this is so heart breaking to me to think that something I wrote would be misunderstood and offend people that it had nothing whatsoever to do with. I deleted the post that I made because I didn't want anyone else to read it and think I was referring to them. I still don't understand why the people that think I was talking about them, thought that. These are some folks that I've been friends with and enjoyed being around and have never had anything against, so I'm not sure why they thought I was referring to them in the first place.

All of this has taught me a HUGE lesson. I've learned that I can't just write down my thoughts and post them in a public place even if it is just meant for my family to read. I supposed I should start another blog and just make it private. I thought about making Tug's Life private since all of this has happened but I just hate to do that. I will try to be more careful from here on out.

So, for anyone that read that old post that I made and misunderstood and thought I was talking about them, I wasn't, and I want to apologize for the misunderstanding. I am not a mean person and would never purposely write something with intentions of hurting someone. All of this has caused me a lot of stress and more than a few sleepless nights. I'll try to just stick to the old stories from here on out.