The Mish Mash

I'm sitting here watching The Dead Zone. Who'dve known that dorky little Anthony Michael Hall would become so...HOT?! I mean look at him, dude is built like a fucking football player! It's amazing what puberty can do to a guy.

Here's a random question: Why do we as a society think it's not okay to feel pain? Not that pain is enjoyable. Quite the opposite, pain hurts like a mofo and is anything but pleasant. But...it's part of life. If you exist at some point you will feel pain. So why do we find it so unacceptable? Why do we encourage people to hide it? If anything it's one of the few universal experiences. Pain is not an abnormality, it's a fact of life, and I don't think people should be made to feel ashamed for hurting.

I think our cultural reaction to pain only serves to heighten pain and more notably, depression. When a person is depressed they feel something is wrong with them at their core. Then society makes them feel even more defective by sending them the message that the pain they are feeling is wrong thus confirming the depressive's perception that there is something inherently wrong with him.

Just think how much easier it would be to hurt if society accepted and respected our pain? If we were not forced to smother and hide it? If it were okay to admit that you are hurting, and even that you may not know the cause of your pain? What if we were told that our pain was normal? Nothing to be ashamed of? I think we'd experience depression in a much different way. We wouldn't treat it as the death sentence we often think it is. We'd see that it is simply another facet of life, one that is normal, and that will eventually pass.

Reasons I Don't Want Children

1) I'll be damned if I'm gonna go through 17 hours of gut splitting childbirth. I can barely handle menstrual cramps.

2) Depression is hereditary and I don't want to bring a child into this world if there is a possibility he or she will inherit it from me. I can't count the number of nights I've sat awake wishing I'd never been born, or that my mother had considered the fact that she could be passing a mental illness on to me. If I can save one more human being from having to live with depression than living childless is a small price to pay.

3) I'm afraid I will become as abusive to my own offspring as my mother was to me. She was very depressed while I was growing up and was emotionally incapable of taking care of me. She was so scared and sad that she got frustrated very easily and blamed me for needing her as much as I did. She couldn't take care of herself, let alone me. I can't take care of myself, forget about a kid.

4) I don't like kids. Plain and simple. They are so drianing. I remember I used to hate babysitting. It was a nice way to make money, but it was never any fun. I didn't enjoy playing with the kids, didn't like entertaining them, didn't like how they clung to me. My favorite part of any evening, besides getting paid and going home, was getting them into bed so I could watch TV. I was always looking for ways to get away from them, short cuts that would enable them to play and leave me alone. Children are a chore to me, not a delight. They do nothing besides exhaust me and make me feel resentful that they are eating up all my time. I don't think I could ever really love a kid. I would feel to imposed upon.

Inner Neopian

You're Taelia!!

Living amidst the
harsh climate of Terror Mountain, Taelia is
always in need of spell ingredients. If you pay
her a visit she will reward you most kindly for
your aid.


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