Youth is truly wasted on the young
Way back in 2004 I wrote this entry on OpenDiary about how messed up it is that teenage girls and young single women will intentionally get pregnant just to have a baby because it's something "cool" that they can do. Seems that trend is still going on today, 3 years later. My own extended family has some experience with this since my youngest cousin got pregnant at only 16, and it was very much a social affair as pretty much every one of her girlfriends also got pregnant at the same time. She had the baby, a girl, who is now just over 2 years old. The father, whom I can best summarize as a gang member, is in jail for various things including drug possession, fraud, and getting into a car chase with the police while the aforementioned baby girl was in the backseat. My cousin is now working at I think a Dairy Queen and gives pretty much every cent she earns to him, in jail. She's hopelessly devoted to this idiot, and seems to be in this for the long haul. I guess we'll see come his release later this year how that all turns out. What I'm getting at here is that "fashion" and/or "attention" babies are a bad idea and I can't understand what goes through the heads of these girls that ruin their teen years with them. It's just ridiculous and sad, or sadiculous if you will.
Amusingly enough, while I was reading the above linked news story I started trying to imagine how incredibly awkward and embarrassing it must be for any girl to strip and spread her legs for a guy for the first time. I can't help imagining that no matter how badly she wants it, that moment must just be a horribly uncomfortable one (not necessarily physically uncomfortable) for somebody who's been told her entire life by adults that that spot is private and nobody should ever see it. Plus it's not like they would need to spread open to masturbate like they would to get laid, so it would be a somewhat unusual position to be in while getting done. Yeah, it's a pretty random train of thought, I know, especially one to have while reading about teenagers who can't keep their legs together and wind up paying for it.
I had a dream the other night about this girl I used to chat with. I had a pretty good crush on her, and even met her once in person, but that was before the crush. Anyways, in this dream I came to visit her while she was taking a nap. She woke up and went for a walk with me, but on the return she didn't seem real anxious to go home where I found her. We eventually made it back to the house, and very unhappy people start to surround us. They start picking on her, ignoring me completely, and they're all speaking Spanish, so I have no idea really what their problem was with her. She's clinging to me, scared all to hell, and then explains to me why. Turns out she's been breaking into homes and napping in these people's beds after school. Think Goldilocks. They start grabbing at her, pulling at her clothes, and she winds up naked and still trying to hide behind me. I do the only thing I can, and pick her up, and run like hell from these people. She wasn't what I would call "sexual naked" but rather "vulnerable naked" in that she just felt defenseless, alone and embarrassed, and her nakedness was a visual indication of this. I just ran and ran with her like that in my arms, all the while she was just repeating "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." and crying. It was a weird dream, especially since I haven't thought about her in years. I really should say hi to her again sometime, see if she remembers or even cares to talk to me.
Amusingly enough, while I was reading the above linked news story I started trying to imagine how incredibly awkward and embarrassing it must be for any girl to strip and spread her legs for a guy for the first time. I can't help imagining that no matter how badly she wants it, that moment must just be a horribly uncomfortable one (not necessarily physically uncomfortable) for somebody who's been told her entire life by adults that that spot is private and nobody should ever see it. Plus it's not like they would need to spread open to masturbate like they would to get laid, so it would be a somewhat unusual position to be in while getting done. Yeah, it's a pretty random train of thought, I know, especially one to have while reading about teenagers who can't keep their legs together and wind up paying for it.
I had a dream the other night about this girl I used to chat with. I had a pretty good crush on her, and even met her once in person, but that was before the crush. Anyways, in this dream I came to visit her while she was taking a nap. She woke up and went for a walk with me, but on the return she didn't seem real anxious to go home where I found her. We eventually made it back to the house, and very unhappy people start to surround us. They start picking on her, ignoring me completely, and they're all speaking Spanish, so I have no idea really what their problem was with her. She's clinging to me, scared all to hell, and then explains to me why. Turns out she's been breaking into homes and napping in these people's beds after school. Think Goldilocks. They start grabbing at her, pulling at her clothes, and she winds up naked and still trying to hide behind me. I do the only thing I can, and pick her up, and run like hell from these people. She wasn't what I would call "sexual naked" but rather "vulnerable naked" in that she just felt defenseless, alone and embarrassed, and her nakedness was a visual indication of this. I just ran and ran with her like that in my arms, all the while she was just repeating "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." and crying. It was a weird dream, especially since I haven't thought about her in years. I really should say hi to her again sometime, see if she remembers or even cares to talk to me.