You Vs. The World

Some blogs are very difficult to read. The political nutjob ones, sure. But I'm more talking about the drama queens...the ones where the writer complains about how everyone in the world is a jerk except for themselves, and how empowered they are not to take any heed of the criticisms the whole world throws in their face.

Well, I think if the whole world--or even just most of it--is truly against you, then maybe the problem isn't the world. Maybe the problem is YOU.

My former sister-in-law was disowned by her entire family, one by one. First one parent, then the other, then an aunt, then a grandmother...she kept moving from one to the next and they'd kick her out in turn. When my brother met her, she'd run out of relatives and friends and was living at the YWCA. Now to me, this was a big red flag. But to my brother, it was a reason to try to save her.

Ask me how that turned out. Better yet, ask her second husband. Or her barely-escaped almost-third husband. Ask her friends, if she had any.

Anyway, the point being, some people are just unable to get along. Not all of them are misunderstood geniuses who march to a different drummer.

Some of them are just assholes who don't care to change.

So they live a miserable life, trying to make other people as miserable as they are themselves, getting angry that their kids don't visit until they finally die.

They're dead and the world goes on, forgetting all about them. Who won the fight?

Posted by Jenelle at July 23, 2006 04:38 PM | TrackBack