“you can’t choose your family but you can choose your friends.”
facebook is great at revealing who people really are. what they are really about. really delving into the “real” person behind the fake posts. stupid posts by stupid people. geeky posts by geeky people. religious posts by religious people. phony posts by phony people. and finally after all the shit boring posts you get the real posts by real people.
we live in a world where phoniness is rewarded and being real is lambasted. a world filled with shame based judgements from boring people living boring lives. not caring but pretending to care. not listening but pretending to listen. not reading but pretending to read. DUMB POSTS FOR DUMB PEOPLE. DON’T BOO JUSTIN BIEBER. APPLAUD KATE MIDDLETON. “I HAVE MORNING SICKNESS.” WHO FUCKING CARES??? KIM KARDASHIAN’S WEDDING GETS MORE PLAY THAN THE POOR DYING STARVING BOYS AND GIRLS IN SUDAN. WHAT IS WRONG WITH US? WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
I SPEAK TRUTH. MY TRUTH. NOT GOD’S. NOT MOM’S. NOT DAD’S. NOT TEACHERS’. NOT PRIME MINISTERS’. NOT PRESIDENTS’. I SPEAK MY TRUTH. MY BELIEFS AND I AM CHASTISED FOR IT. HERE’S A THOUGHT…DON’T READ MY FUCKING POSTS. MY FUCKING BLOG.
i get molested by some old greek man. no sympathy. i get thrown in jail. no sympathy. i get “jerked off” by an old hockey coach. no sympathy. i have a family member die and another family member die right after and another family member attempt to kill herself right in front of my face. no sympathy. i have babysitter after babysitter after babysitter while just a boy of ten. eleven. twelve. thirteen. no sympathy. i get arrested (wrongfully) for telling a useless “do gooder” mcdonald’s manager that i will “ski off your forehead if you don’t leave me alone”. no sympathy. i get pulled over for speeding. my name comes up on the cop’s monitor…”VIOLENT” (WHY). no sympathy. don jail. toronto east. mimico. north bay alcohol centre. a.a. psychiatrists. psychologists. psychotherapists. pills. diagnosis’. adhd. intermittent explosive personality disorder. anxiety disorder. impulse control disorder. narcissistic personality disorder. waking up drunk in wrong people’s houses. overdosing on mushrooms. too much cocaine. too many drunken nights. fucking too many girls…mostly unattractive. no condoms. STD’S. LONELINESS. DEPRESSION. SADNESS. ABUSED. WRONGFULLY ACCUSED. SHAMED. MOLESTED. CRITICIZED (constantly). MOCKED. JUDGED. JUDGED. JUDGED. NOT SUPPORTED. THROWN TO THE WOLVES. “YOUR DAD (DECEASED) WOULD BE DISGUSTED BY YOU.” ABANDONED. TORTURED. HURT. SELF INFLICTED WOUNDS. HURT. HOSPITALIZED. no sympathy. facebook exposes real. it exposes fake.
christmas time is here and i will spend my holidays (everyday is a holiday for me) with my two favourite people in the whole wide (wild) world…TRIGGY AND RYLEE…NOT LAURA AND TAYLOR. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE CONQUERS ALL. WITHOUT IT YOU (WE) ARE DOOMED. unless you get it from god which i don’t…so…(tears) I LOVE YOU TRIGGY AND RYLEE AND I OWE MY LIFE’S HAPPINESS TO YOU. merry christmas.
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ps…for those of you who also love me unconditionally…I HOPE TO DRINK LOTS OF WINE WITH YOU OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AS WELL AS THE MANY YEARS AHEAD.
pss…for those of you who pretend to love me and say, “we really need to get together. haven’t seen you in awhile (ten years). it’s the holidays. let’s hook up. we need to get together. IT IS CHRISTMAS!!!” don’t bother. i will see you when you become real.
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salvation army
every year at this time i go shopping for my wine (more wine than the rest of the year) and see old grey haired men with sad looks on their faces ringing old bells with old jars in front of them and old signs above old jars which read, “salvation army”.
i stand and observe the many faces looking down fidgeting with any gadget they can get their hands on to distract them from looking into the old sad man’s eyes to avoid throwing change into the old jar. i know all the tricks because i use the same tricks. the tricks that i use for the old man ringing the old bell are the same ones that i use for the old drunk man with ripped up pooh stained pants that are old.
i am a very generous man with a HUGE heart who many times goes way out of my way to help struggling old ladies who have dropped old wallets or old scarves. so then why do i do so much to avoid these old men behind the old jar?
the answer is simple. i have absolutely no idea where my money goes when giving to this old institution. i could ask twenty people what salvation army is and what it stands for and i would get twenty different answers. with our economy being the way it is and people so wrapped up in their own struggles to help their own families at christmas time more needs to be done by the old salvation army to inform us on just what they do and what they stand for.
just as people need to evolve…companies need to evolve as well. i believe that most people want to help others less fortunate in some capacity but i also believe that “throwing away” your loose change is only done out of guilt. I buy a bottle of wine at the liquor store…”do you want to donate a dollar to sick kids”. i buy zit cream at shopper’s drug mart…”do you want to donate two dollars to salvation army”. i fidget and squirm as i pretend to reach into my pocket and then give my standard answer, “i gave two bucks last time (i am in the liquor store everyday).”
WAKE UP SALVATION ARMY AND INFORM US OF WHAT YOU STAND FOR. DON’T BE LAZY. DON’T MAKE US FEEL GUILTY. EVOLVE. why is it always old sad looking men behind the old ball ringing the old ball? if i KNEW that my twenty dollar donation would actually put a HUGE SMILE on a little kids face who is less fortunate then i would throw my twenty dollar bill in from the tim horton’s line while waiting for my double double but i don’t know where my money is going so i will continue to fidget and hide and pretend to answer my phone and feel a little guilt for ten seconds until i walk out into the parking lot and scream at how ridiculously poorly planned the lot is. and to think people actually get paid to design these horribly planned grid locked parking lots!!!