October Should Be Fun!

It is amazing what bitter, unhappy people (there are far too many of them) will come up with to justify and cover up their flaws and avoid accepting and thus moving forward from their immaturities! Tell me,  my educated and well read friends, did it ever occur to you that the “real world” would be quite like this—hostile, resistant, and uninterested in any thinking which makes it reconsider its perspective?  Did you ever think that MOST people you would run into after leaving those stone hallways would openly deny your validity,  the cause of which you or your parents are maybe still paying for in cold hard G’s?  Or,  if your parents were rolling in it, that they wrote a big, fat check for?  Now I was always raised to believe that you treat the doorman with the same courtesy that you treat the doctor; but I am honestly questioning the validity of this considering how uncouth, inconsiderate, and unconcerned barely accomplished individuals tend to be not only comfortable acting as, but also of which they are quite proud! I liken it to the flying of the military flag when the time for peace has long been called for, or the confederate flag as though the Civil War was not won.  In the words of famed comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, “Aren’t you embarrassed?!”

Seriously, our shame was one of the best things we had going for us as human beings. Do you know why?  Because it kept crazy people in check.  I am not just talking of those who,  through education, spiritual leadership, and rearing, are positively called to be leaders in society through expression, opinion, and career; but by “crazy” I mean those who think that ignorant opinions are right simply because they “feel” the best.  Can any of my philosopher friends weigh in either privately or publicly? Where does the current dominant philosophy stand on hedonistic theories of living and can they be valid in an increasingly divided world, where even those who would previously be considered  immoral are said to have their own valid self-created and socially constructed morality? Can you weigh in, please?  Can you, can you?! If not, I digress. And I’ve been doing that a lot lately because when I gave a thought out and structured opinion a year and a half ago (the grudge is real) it was a fellow FEMALE individual who told me it was, and I quote, “crazy rambling.” Hm.  That’s funny.  Girl on Girl crime, IRL. Not in my wildest Wellesley nightmares did those stone hallways echo such mad feline hissing and hysteria! Again, “aren’t you embarrassed?!”

I’d like to thank the Catholic Church, which I’m told has, according to my baptism, confession, and confirmation, made me a Lifetime Member (do I get a badge?!),  which will make it all the more ironic when one day they tell me my husband and I can’t be buried in a Catholic cemetery for his (and possibly my) tattoos, or because my wedding was in a garden and not a Catholic church (the church is the PEOPLE, people!)! But really I owe them for my oodles of shame which prevent me, even after deep introspection, from understanding or supporting pride in any kind of modern connotation...as well as but not limited to membership to the NRA (I’m a Christian thinker—not a monster); the desire to make my body my canvas (it’s my temple, people!); and generally for wanting to be a decent, conscious, thoughtful human being who leads as righteously as is possible for my station and circumstance in life.

I know there are people out there who positively HATE intelligent women, especially if they’re religious, or to be more PC, “spiritual”—some of them technically belong to the family I have married into... Tell me, how do I give a crash course on equality, logic, reason, money, and the humanities to certain someones who did not share the same interest and passion in my path as I did?! Because I think they think I know nothing which would be a very sorrowful mistake on their part, in the interest of truthful and fair interactions...

Courtesy of OED:

power trip

NOUN

• A self-aggrandizing quest for ever-increasing control over others.