I Love A Copycat Said No One Ever...

Ever since I can remember I've had issues with people who copy other peoples work. In school I never wanted friends to copy my homework. Why should they? I did it and I wanted the credit for it. If they wanted any kind of accreditation they should have gone home and done it themselves!

Is that harsh? Probably so, but I have a letter for said person I am ranting about today. For all of you whom this does not concern, I apologize now. It takes a lot to upset me or make me rant about something, but after months now I just can't let it go.

Dear copy-cater,

I feel the same way about my blog that I did about my homework. Don't copy it. Stop copying it! To keep from confusion I am referring to the format, the wording, the pictures and the content (aka everything). Quite frankly it's silly and it makes it look like you don't have a mind of your own.

If you can't be authentic and come up with stuff of your own, you shouldn't be blogging. Yeah, I said it. What's the point? I hate to break it to you, but if you don't have a heart for blogging or a passion of your own, your blog isn't going to make it. This crazy thing we do in our own atmosphere of blogland is uniquely different for everyone. That's why blogs exist. Because people talk about different things that interest different people.

My mother has always told me to take someone copying my work as a compliment. Well I just can't seem to do that. I find it annoying and rude that I spent many hours and days making scribbles and scratches to make my blog a representation of me and you just come and take it with a few clicks of a button. So no I don't take it as a compliment. I see it as disrespectful.

I think you know who you are. If you don't, ask yourself this question and you may have your answer. "Do I go to www.themoderntulipblog.com and look at her pages and writing and then go to my blog and change my wording to sound eerily similar?" If your answer is yes, would you so kindly stop?

Copying will only make you one step behind, always. 

Sincerely,