RITA'S CXLVI: What's a Sweetheart Like You Doin' in a Dump Like This?

[Donald M.]

Isn't it odd that we're all criticized for not really wanting much? How dare we value happiness over "success"? How dare we even BE happy without "success"?

It's like the whole, "wasted potential" guilt trip. It's my damn potential to waste. Worry about your own life and let me live the way I want to live, not the way you think I should be living based on your determination of my "potential". The people who make these determinations tend to be biased anyway. Trust me, I know better than you and I never actually had that much potential to begin with.

[Paradox]

"When are you going to do something with your life?"

I am. I'm watching TV, reading and playing video games. BECAUSE I WANT TO!

But, yeah, that whole "potential" crap. I'm smarter than anyone in my family, but for some reason they think of that as "smarter than everyone". I can draw and write better than any of them, but they don't get that I can't draw or write well enough to get a job doing that stuff. I COULD, but it requires a lot of work before I could get there and I'm just not that interested enough to put forth that kind of effort.

I don't have a "passion" for anything in particular. I'm a dilettante and a dabbler and a "jack of all trades; master of none" and frankly, that works fine for me.

[Donald M.]

"When are you going to do something with your life?"

I am. I'm watching TV, reading and playing video games. BECAUSE I WANT TO!

But, yeah, that whole "potential" crap. I'm smarter than anyone in my family, but for some reason they think of that as "smarter than everyone". I can draw and write better than any of them, but they don't get that I can't draw or write well enough to get a job doing that stuff. I COULD, but it requires a lot of work before I could get there and I'm just not that interested enough to put forth that kind of effort.

I don't have a "passion" for anything in particular. I'm a dilettante and a dabbler and a "jack of all trades; master of none" and frankly, that works fine for me.

Yep.



Just had to post that because no song better illustrates the "Fuck off, I'm fine," lifestyle/attitude we exemplify.

[Paradox]

Heh, they look really weird to me without all the later facial hair.

[Gryphon]

Im cutting this and putting it in the news thread.

[Puma]

Morning people.

Just a brief drive by, its rather uncomfortable using MiL's computer (no wireless) as I am stuck in her bedroom.



also, can we keep the random doom and gloom out of Rita's? I get it that you are someone connected to the event but ...

[Gryphon]

Morning people.

Just a brief drive by, its rather uncomfortable using MiL's computer (no wireless) as I am stuck in her bedroom.



also, can we keep the random doom and gloom out of Rita's? I get it that you are someone connected to the event but ...

Was already cutting it out when you typed this.

[Michael P]

Kevin McAllister is a little psychopath.

[Athena Bast]

I get spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my parents and sister. My sister and mother, I don't mind so much. My father is ever oblivious to anything I say or looks to be critical about everything.

I just don't enjoy talking to them because nothing I say seems to matter. I have nothing to tell them. My family has never been good with communication.

It's just going to be an awkward couple hours involving dinner. I'd talk to them like people if every time I talked like an adult they didn't freak out on me.

[Vibranium]

It's like the whole, "wasted potential" guilt trip. It's my damn potential to waste. Worry about your own life and let me live the way I want to live, not the way you think I should be living based on your determination of my "potential". The people who make these determinations tend to be biased anyway. Trust me, I know better than you and I never actually had that much potential to begin with.

I get some of that, but I do ok enough in my current job I don't get pestered about it

my biggest issue is my mom, who while I love her, treats the youngest like an adult because she popped out a baby first and the rest of us still get treated like we're teenagers

[Michael P]

*ahem*

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo!
Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou.
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola Boola Pensacoola Hullabaloo!

[Paradox]

Walt Kelly rocked!

Although he probably thought he was using a fictional town name, too, like everyone else.

[bipolar danger girl]

One end ties around one person's neck, and the other around the other person's waist.

Genius.

I'm not used to being adored i don't think i could handle it.

And it's extra terrible when I do it.

Now see, that's all I want out of life myself. A nice, simple, straightforward job that pays just enough to support my simple needs: books to read, games to play, food to eat and a roof to do it all under. My brother makes over a hundred grand a year at his job and I'm smart enough that if I had any real ambition or patience for traditional education that could have been my life as well, maybe with a wife and a couple kids thrown in for good measure. I have none of the things traditionally associated with success, but I'm genuinely happy.

I've no doubt I have relatives who consider me a loser or a disappointment, but if we measure success based on how happy you are with what you've got rather than on accumulation of achievements and/or stuff than I would on that account, not least because I don't care about any of that stuff. I'm proud of my brother, but I wouldn't love or respect him any less if he were working at McDonalds and for what it's worth I'm sure he feels pretty much the same.

I would still hate my sister if she made a hundred grand a year, but I'd probably talk to her... for the presents.

Because children are property and thus should be split up equitably like all other assets. It's just a good thing they're identical, otherwise the parents would have fought over the better one.

The better one depends on what fucking day it is.

*ahem*

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo!
Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou.
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola Boola Pensacoola Hullabaloo!

Delightful! *twirl*


Happy Christmas Eve, CBRians! Have a holly jolly fucking holiday!

[Paradox]

Oh, and thanks for the shoes. You're just like my mom, never listen. I SAID RUBY SLIPPERS NOT PINK PUMPS!

But Happy Mid-Winter Festival of your choice anyway.

[bipolar danger girl]

Oh, and thanks for the shoes. You're just like my mom, never listen. I SAID RUBY SLIPPERS NOT PINK PUMPS!

But Happy Mid-Winter Festival of your choice anyway.

Thanks, dox! So nice of you to dress up. *twirl* I especially like the bow on your tail. *throws sparkles*