I used to think the world was a nice place. That was when I lived in a nice suburban community and crime was just something that happened on TV.
One thing I have noticed on Xanga in my four years of being here is that there a lot of younger people here who are stuck on super gag worthy notions of romance, fantasies of utopian society, and other lofty ideas.
I always wonder when these people are going to get their bubble burst. Not that I wish them into a state of negativity. But there's enough bullshit in this world that you cannot passively ignore it unless you want to be eaten by a predator.
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That's why I laugh at white privileged suburbanites who haven't had there bubbles burst write posts about discrimination. LOL
Real world SUCKS!
Makes me wonder too. :/
You are such a Debbie Downer, I swear.
Just because the world is broken doesn't mean we shouldn't have hope. Also, that hope should motivate us to change the brokenness of the world.
@clumsyandunaware - +1
I have to say that moving to Houston has been a wake-up call. Actually, I take that back. The apartments we lived in before this were a wake-up call. Between drug deals going on while I'm trying to get my son off the bus, our truck getting pissed on by a high individual... yea, it really sucked seeing the worst in people. Actually, I wouldn't call that the worst but, still. The area of Houston that I live in is actually relatively quiet, people tend to keep to themselves, and we don't see police cars in the neighborhood unless they're just patrolling. It is scary when you see something on the news about a bank robbery that happened near you, though. =/ While I do think it's important not to walk around as if every person around you is a criminal, it is good to be aware and to be cautious.
It also sucks to walk around as if the whole world is fucked up and out to get you. It sucks when you see the shitty side of everything and you trust no one. That takes up your entire life and energy.
I think that some people are privileged enough that they can ignore it. They don't have to care about the predators out there because their bubble is large enough that it will never be penetrated by the evil side of the world.
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I feel like a lot of people aren't even in denial anymore. It's like we all know the world is shitty and it's probably gonna get shittier pretty soon. We just don't want it to, and we want to not worry about it until it does.
Nobody is safe from the predators. Even in the best communities, they walk among us, and they blend in very well.
It is sad, that there is a lot of shit, that happens. However we can't forget, there is indeed some good left in the world =)
It's a sweet dream, but it's just as bad as becoming so cynical, we forget that there is the possibility of having a happy ending.
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There is nowhere safe, and it is a little hopeless sometimes but I hold on to faith that I will make it through.
I wonder this also.
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It was cliche but my father told me over and over again, "No one will ever hand you anything in life." I feel sorry for all of those people in life who think that things will just be handed to them.
The nice thing is we live in a great country where the upward climb will be easy. We life in a time where we can give thought to true love because life does not pick a mate for us.
Everyone should expose their kids to enough crap- from as safe a distance as possible, that there is a sense of reality imparted to every person who comes of age.
Well i think that part of the problem is that human beings don't belong in cramped living and socializing conditions such as that of the cities. I have lived in both the city and the country, and have visited a decent variety of communities and demographics in this land, and the two biggest reoccurring problems are 1)city tension and 2)suburbian lack of diversity. The solution is, in my eyes, that we have to move out of the cities and start blending cultures into the countryside. The Mesopotamians suffered the destruction of their society because they kept crowding into the city centers. Throughout history this appears to repeat and todays world, not just the U.S., is largely on the same course. Some of the offshoots of Mesopotamian society that branched out into other areas of the world learned from this, at least for a while, but the developing European society generally didn't. And that culture brought the disease, literally and figuratively, to many other parts of the world.
I felt this way when I learned Chicken McNuggets weren't necessarily chicken in their natural state.
some parents try to protect their kids from anything "different". i once attended a lecture given by a doctor who compared this to a parent keeping a child from interacting with the environment to protect the child from getting sick. the effect would be the immune system never develops and can't deal with the larger world when the child gets older. he made the point that this is analogous to how well or how poorly a child later gets on with people of diverse backgrounds and how well or poorly a child deals with life's challenges.
as for the burbs, i grew up mostly in the burbs and lived most of my adult life in NYC. i also lived for short spans in rural areas. in each place i found people who were awake to a bigger picture and people who were not so much.
I had a big dose of reality ever since I was 5. I had to deal with more things than a normal kid that age. Yet, I always believed and still do in a "utopia like state." Doesn't hurt to wish for a happy place.
i tend to see it differently.. i tend to think, what can we do to make the shitty things outside my bubble to be as great as it is inside my bubble... in a way, i guess i'm trying to get my bubble to get bigger and bigger, that in the end, the whole world is in the bubble of goodness, and the shitty things are all in the past...