Dirty Olde Town
The Fly
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2008
- Messages
- 62
People tell me how great my life is. Okay, let's see:
1) I have no job.
2) The man I was supposed to marry has suddenly - and without so much as a peep - disappeared off the face of the earth.
3) I have to live with my mom. Again. Because I can't support myself.
4) Anything and everything I had, bar four pairs of pants and three shirts, disappeared with this man. And I can't replace anything. Because I have no job.
5) I feel empty and useless, because I was supposed to be this big success.
6) I've failed at everything that I was supposed to be successful at.
So - you tell me what I'm supposed to be so excited about?
By the way, the old saws about having all my limbs and senses (right. You want my naked mole rat eyesight? Might be easier to be blind.) simply make no sense here. I don't believe I should be happy I'm doing better than some starving person in Africa. It doesn't make me feel any better to be told that 'someone else is suffering worse!' because I don't see any reason to be smug about other people's lives being suckier than mine. Mine's spretty sucky as it is, thankyouverymuch. I'm at the bottom of a very dark tunnel. Why is there no light?
1) I have no job.
2) The man I was supposed to marry has suddenly - and without so much as a peep - disappeared off the face of the earth.
3) I have to live with my mom. Again. Because I can't support myself.
4) Anything and everything I had, bar four pairs of pants and three shirts, disappeared with this man. And I can't replace anything. Because I have no job.
5) I feel empty and useless, because I was supposed to be this big success.
6) I've failed at everything that I was supposed to be successful at.
So - you tell me what I'm supposed to be so excited about?
By the way, the old saws about having all my limbs and senses (right. You want my naked mole rat eyesight? Might be easier to be blind.) simply make no sense here. I don't believe I should be happy I'm doing better than some starving person in Africa. It doesn't make me feel any better to be told that 'someone else is suffering worse!' because I don't see any reason to be smug about other people's lives being suckier than mine. Mine's spretty sucky as it is, thankyouverymuch. I'm at the bottom of a very dark tunnel. Why is there no light?