Just a moment

[jhameia]

The other night I decided I really don't like people who bitch about their problems and about other people they come in contact with a great deal, yet do nothing to actually make their lives better. They'll deal with the problems they face, of course, they'll talk to people they know, they will survive.

But they will not actually go out of their way to improve their lives. If they meet something they think is cool, they will depend on the setting that they meet this person in to talk to them. It's always about coincidence and hoping to be able to run into each other. It's not about actually caring enough to call one another up, and setting up a time to meet.

These are the people who will let shit happen to them, and they don't necessarily arrange their lives in such a way to either avoid the bullshit that happens, or to deal with it in a positive manner. No, they will sit there and complain incessantly about how it's such a bad deal, and how it's a bad time, and there's this constant aura of helplessness around them.

These are not helpless people! They are perfectly capable of taking their own initiative to fix their own lives! They are not handicapped in any specific way except by their own flaws which they can fix!

"You have all the power in the world, if you dare look for it" ~ Molly Grue, to Schmendrick

So that got me thinking about a lot of things that I wish I could just tell people to think about, and it kept hopping from one thing to another, and I thought, maybe I could write a column filled with homey self-help advice.

Of course, it wouldn't be homey, knowing me, it would be brutal, awful, and everybody would think I was a self-righteous prick.

...

I should do it.

Comments

[castusalbuscor.livejournal.com]

OMG I should read that book again! Its due time I cried again from reading a book.

Write the column, and knowing you, it WILL be brutal, awful, and everybody would think you are a self-righteous prick, but also knowing you you just wont care what they think

[lovely-lici.livejournal.com]

You SHOULD do it! I'd love it! Everyone else will love it too, although they may not come out and say it, or admit it. The evidence, however, will be in the number of people who HAVE to read it every week... Even if only for the secret pleasure of getting pissed off. DO IT!

[death-row-girl.livejournal.com]

DO IT! WE WILL TAKE OVER THE JOURNAL!!!

[nolan-ash.livejournal.com]

I agree about the "helpless" whiners, but I don't think a collumn would do any good. The sort of person who is too lazy and apathetic to create change in their lives on their own isn't likely to do much differently in response to good advice on the internet, especially if it's worded harshly. =p People shut off their ears when they get defensive. =/ Especially when they know what's being said is true about them.

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

It's not on the Internet, actually. It's more in the school newspaper, and the first draft in my head is looking more dramatic in the inspiring way rather than in the misanthropic way.