I never got a trophy when I played baseball because I wasn't good at it, and that was okay with me. I got my trophies singing my heart out all throughout my school career, from dedicating much of my time to practicing, rehearsing and performing. When I got a varsity letter my freshman year for being on the swim team, I felt it was entirely undeserved, but the swim team is considered all around varsity.
We spend an absurd amount of money on fancy, gourmet birthday cakes for babies while teaching them it's okay to verbally assault people over the internet.
Seriously, what are they going to think when they find out one day that daddy consistently called mommy a whore or that mommy trashed daddy for not paying child support?
Because, let's face it, we're living in a world where having a baby is not a big deal anymore. The next generation might as well be called the "Oops Generation."
Which is one of the main reasons I make it a point to take my birth control and practice safe sex. And when it comes down to it, I don't sleep with people I wouldn't at least consider having a child with.
I'm living in a world where, if asked whether or not I believe in God and all I say is yes, my response is immediately taken as a threat and I'm bashed for even having faith.
On the flip side, I'm living in a world where evangelists and right wing maniacs have distorted faith and religion so much that they now carry a nasty stain.
In my world, I go to work every day. I pay my car insurance. I pay my health insurance. I make about $100 too much to qualify for government assistance. But I still work, and I still pay my bills, with little or no money left over to put into my savings.
It must be nice to sit on your ass all day and know the government will take care of you. I bought my iPhone with money from the same checking account I pay my bills out of. You know, the one my paycheck is deposited into.
I'm living in a world where Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber are considered "talent."
Enough said. Where's the noose?
We are living in a world where young people demand respect from their elders without giving it first.
Remember the phrase "You have to earn respect before receiving it?" Yeah, that's been lost in translation.
I'm tired of seeing the same status updates on Facebook, down to the most unimportant detail of someone's day.
I don't care what side of the bed you woke up on. Unless it was in the middle of street in downtown Wilmington and you seemed to have lost your pants, I'm not interested.
I don't care what you're making for every meal of every day, either.
We are living in a world where shit like that has become the basis for our entertainment.
I'm stuck in this world where fact-checking has gone down the drain and people immediately believe what they see or read without looking into it first.
In today's world making the commute to work is enough to drive one insane. We seem to have forgotten common courtesy and the fact that we will all get to our destination one way or the other. You're not going to be late if you let even just one car merge in front of you.
We are all racing to the red light.
I'm living in a world where if I were to play Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London, it would be mistaken for that Kid Rock song.
I'm shaking my head.
In my world, asking someone to sit up straight is like asking them to shove bamboo shoots under their fingernails.
Doesn't your back hurt from being slumped over all day? Oh, and by the way, close your mouth. You look like you're missing a chromosome.
I'm living in a world where it is expensive to eat healthy and cheap to just not care anymore.
I've been over this before.
I'm living in a world where the word judgmental has become a common adjective to describe someone's character.
Maybe if we stopped and put ourselves in someone else's shoes for a second, we'd think twice. Maybe if we got to know our neighbors the world would be a nicer place. Maybe if we weren't so quick to shove our beliefs down someone else's throat they would be willingly to listen to what we have to say.
We are living in a world where children are abducted and found murdered over car parts, or they are abused by someone they trust at a day camp. You can't send your kids to school, vacation bible school, or sports camp without worrying whether or not they will be returned to you mentally intact or intact at all.
What is provoking this sickness that is rearing its ugly head in our society? We are destroying our children, one by one, leaving them to grow up jaded and desensitized with no faith in humanity at all.
I am living in a world where evil is overshadowing good. Drug cartels have taken over Mexico and leaving severed heads in front of elementary schools as a threat to teachers if half of their wages are not paid to cartels.
Excuse me, but what the fuck. That makes the shit hole schools in run down neighborhoods I sometimes work in look like first class private academies.
The bottom line is that we're living on the edge. Everyone is on the edge. I feel it too. Some days I want to flip out on the person in front of me in line at the store because they're paying for their goods with $20 in change. But I don't. Because I don't know what their situation is. Maybe they scrounged up all they had left to buy a gallon of milk for their kids.
It's easier to be a dick than to be nice. It's easier to keep walking instead of hold the door open for the person behind you struggling with an armload of stuff. It's easier to cut the old person off to pull into the parking spot they were waiting for. It's easier to discriminate rather than open our minds to something we're not familiar with. We're all guilty of it; it's how we handle it. Let's face it - we're living on the edge, but Steven Tyler says it better than I can.
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