the nauseating stench of the loft

Sometimes I wonder if my writing reads to others the way some other people sound to me. One of my friends is a perfect example. It's not just her writing, I guess. I often feel like she looks down on the rest of the world for not living as perfectly as she thinks she does. Then when she writes... it's like she is trying to sound lofty. Kind of like my journals in high school that I wrote with the intention of sounding like something I'm not. I hope someone, someday, will call me on my bullshit if I ever start to sound full of it in my writing. I just have a hard time reading things that are clearly playing to an audience in a patronizing way... A lot of it is a by-product of buying into things too easily, I think. The rest is a direct result of an "the best way to fight the system is to live outside of it" mentality. Which, to me, is silly.