When did the generation that once wanted change become so bitter? When did they wake up and say, "It's time to become just how our parents were"? I try to take into consideration that they may not be asking for women to stay at home... for segregation... to dumb down the citizens... I also take into consideration that too many people idolize the 60s as peace loving times. I understand that... It takes grit to cause change... It takes tearing down and rebuilding in a new way...
It takes the right generation...
One with some courage to say "hey, fuck you, I want to live in a different world than the one you settled for", they might say it more eloquently... but not me! I am saying FUCK YOU! I have a degree that if used would make me an editor, and if you cannot tell by my blog, I would suck at that... or I could be a teacher with another year of education, another year of debt, another year wasted to do something I cannot imagine myself doing...
I work, maybe at a job that people would not be proud to hold, but I work and I am proud. I pay my bills. I save when I can. But, I live paycheck to paycheck... so I don't give a damn about the woes of people making 250,000 or more a year. If I made just 10,000 more a year, being without kids, house, car, I would be set. I don't drive, I bike, I don't eat out, I cook, I don't buy new, I buy used, so 10,000 would mean I could splurge on a vacation when right now I cannot afford to visit my family, pay off my loans quicker if not a majority of them, save for the house I one day would like to own. Do you know how much I would make a year if I made 10,000 more... 18,000.... I don't even make 10,000 a year...
So how can I perpetuate something that is bad for me...? How can I accept that what is good for me is another damn old man claiming he'll do something for me...? How can I back down and say people will vote for whoever... When it seems so wrong not to vote for something entirely new, something that may be frightening but only because the other option seems safe...
When people I thought had taught me to be an individual, be free, understand that everyone is equal, that money can ruin relationships, make you hate your life, are voting for something that is against everything I thought they represented, it is disheartening...
When did you wake up so bitter....? When did you decide to stop progressing... be so comfortable to forget that you were once where I am... in a rental property hoping that after rent and bills you had enough to buy groceries...?
You may think I am young and don't have enough life experience, but you are the ones who have forgotten passion, the feeling of discontent, the want for change... I feel it... and honestly believe it's still within you...
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All Righty Then.
I have nothing else to add. No, I do. They haven't all jumped ship. Only certain ones.
To whom exactly do you refer? If it is to me as one of the bitter and disappointing, I would appreciate the opportunity to face my accuser(s). I do not assume that your choices are made out of some dirth of knowledge and experience. I accept your honest decisions even when I do not agree. How can you presume to know my heart?
I hate to even do this again but I had to change where my blog is... AGAIN. My old site had no privacy. My parents were allowed to read it and ended up freaking out about something that I had posted... which was a picture of me smoking a cigarette. Someone else also had the password and I got paranoid, naturally. I am only using it for art and/or updates of that nature.
Wiener: try the alphabridge blog. There's more Jennie info over there. But not much. I will post on SCM regarding her and what I can piece together from what Penny has said and what I have found...
my "word verification" for this comment is "meanness"
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