What a sad little Fairy-Tale
I've come to realize just how much of a fairy-tale world we think we live in. Something bad happens, sweep it under the rug. Someone stole a cookie out the cookie jar? Oh my gosh, alert the media we have a crisis on our hands. One person barely does anything yet its connected to something potentially great, turn them into a hero. Real life is not the movies. Nothing is truly that easy. I'm one to talk seeing as I'm part of the majority that is so naive and completely ignorant because they don't want to get involved. However, I can't help thinking about this one scene from 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' before Little John and Robin Hood duke it out on the bridge and Ah-Choo points out the obvious about the lack of a stream underneath and presents the fact that he can stand on both sides. I for one consider myself one of those kinds of people. I know enough that I'm not completely oblivious, but not enough that I can really create a solid argument for or against anything. I ramble, I talk, I spit out word vomit. I continue.
have we really stooped so low as to expect the perfect fairy-tale ending for everything? We who sit mindless in front of the TV, computer screens, texting instead of actually talking, going into a zombie-like state in front of our PS2, XBox, Gamecube, Wii gaming stations. This is where I truly believe that I have been born in the wrong time period. I would love nothing more than to go back to the 60s and 70s and have a more appropriate excuse for everything that I do, because at least people seemed to believe in each other more then. I am definitely a flower child: I abhor technology even though I use it on more than a daily basis for what I do, I hate how our economy is going to shit. Yes, its a recession people, and we're only hurting ourselves more by trying to dig ourselves out of it. Things need to fail in order to rebuild and become stronger. This is where it becomes more like a fairy-tale. People put so much faith that "someone else" will take care of everything and everything will be good as new in so little time. Oh the grim reality of it all. Call me a pessimist all you like but even I can't consider myself a true pessimist. I still have the hope that things will get better, but it will take more than just a few years to get everything and everyone back on their feet again. Maybe I live in my own fantasy world by saying just that, but at least I have a hold on reality and can still think logically with a brain that most people I know seem to lack nowadays.
If people are so intent on believing in a fairy-tale, read the Brothers Grimm stories. If anything, those hold truer to reality than not and at least make you think.
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Among other things, I hate feeling like I've slipped back into being a hopeless romantic again. I wish that I could get over stuff, and I can't. Not that I haven't tried, I'm still trying. I've been told that there's nothing wrong in waiting for what feels right...however, what if everything points to what feels right as being totally wrong, done for, and irreparable? Contrary to what people may believe, I don't think everything is about me. If I did, I know that 99% of the people I hang with would stop associating with me and the other 1% would stop, stare, smack me upside the head, and then stop associating with me. I hate still feeling like I'm still with someone even though its over.
have we really stooped so low as to expect the perfect fairy-tale ending for everything? We who sit mindless in front of the TV, computer screens, texting instead of actually talking, going into a zombie-like state in front of our PS2, XBox, Gamecube, Wii gaming stations. This is where I truly believe that I have been born in the wrong time period. I would love nothing more than to go back to the 60s and 70s and have a more appropriate excuse for everything that I do, because at least people seemed to believe in each other more then. I am definitely a flower child: I abhor technology even though I use it on more than a daily basis for what I do, I hate how our economy is going to shit. Yes, its a recession people, and we're only hurting ourselves more by trying to dig ourselves out of it. Things need to fail in order to rebuild and become stronger. This is where it becomes more like a fairy-tale. People put so much faith that "someone else" will take care of everything and everything will be good as new in so little time. Oh the grim reality of it all. Call me a pessimist all you like but even I can't consider myself a true pessimist. I still have the hope that things will get better, but it will take more than just a few years to get everything and everyone back on their feet again. Maybe I live in my own fantasy world by saying just that, but at least I have a hold on reality and can still think logically with a brain that most people I know seem to lack nowadays.
If people are so intent on believing in a fairy-tale, read the Brothers Grimm stories. If anything, those hold truer to reality than not and at least make you think.
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Among other things, I hate feeling like I've slipped back into being a hopeless romantic again. I wish that I could get over stuff, and I can't. Not that I haven't tried, I'm still trying. I've been told that there's nothing wrong in waiting for what feels right...however, what if everything points to what feels right as being totally wrong, done for, and irreparable? Contrary to what people may believe, I don't think everything is about me. If I did, I know that 99% of the people I hang with would stop associating with me and the other 1% would stop, stare, smack me upside the head, and then stop associating with me. I hate still feeling like I'm still with someone even though its over.