2006-07-12 - 10:27 p.m.
The thing that got me thinking about the world was this:
"I believe that people don't see the world as it is, I think more often than not they tend to see it as they see themselves."
I disagree. I don't see the rest of the world as I see myself. I see the rest of the world as a cold and cruel place where people are only interested in their BMW SUVs and destroying their children by making sure they have everything that their parents couldn't give them, never realizing that it wasn't COULDN'T it was WOULDN'T. Finally when their children have grown into self-indulgent "adults", living well above their means, do they realize that no one should have EVERYTHING handed to them.
I was reading a bulletin posted by MR. SMILES-ALL-OF-THE-FUCKING-TIME (who I actually like quite a great deal now). It was about this gorgeous teenaged girl in Canada somewhere. She was beautiful and popular with lots of friends and a truly enviable waistline and she was stabbed to death at McDonalds. I felt a little sympathy but mostly I thought about how she died suddenly after living a brief but joyous life and how she never had to face all of the disappointments that inevitably occur when people get older.
Then I feel like a mean person for thinking that.
I'm glad that I'm not a nanny anymore. I loved shaping young lives but the parents usually sucked!
