Awww punkin....it'll be ok.

I am on it again!  I am ruffling through the internet looking at random posts of this and that.  I subscribe to couple of online communities - most of them have mostly American content (very frustrating) and very little that is relevant to me or my situation, nothing really close to the mindset that I have about life and what it is all about.  My husband argues with me often - I would say - about how narrow minded I am, or how opinionated I am, how black and white I am...my opinion is that the grey area is where all the trouble is...lol.  This lack of accountability that people have towards what they are actually responsible for.  I am irritated today by the fact that there are parents out there who spend amazing amounts of money to fix their kids - with this unproven therapy or that unproven therapy - or they try something because it worked on their friends kid.  I don't know...why can't we be less focused on what is wrong with them and focus on what is right?  Why can't we focus on the good things of the world - ignore the shitty stuff - it isn't gonna go away - so what...why is it the responsibility of others to feed those who are not willing to feed themselves.  Go teach them how to fish and then they will have the means to feed themselves.  Teach them how to make do with what they have and then maybe we would have a little less homelessness, hunger, poverty and sickness - teach people how to take care of themselves, don't focus on the "problem"...homelessness gets more attention than people with disabilities who live on what the government gives them.  Habitat for Humanity doesn't build complexes for seniors who can barely afford to live in the oldest long term care facility in the city, those same people who sit in a hospital bed waiting for weeks just to get into a space that is even smaller than the one they just left.  Are charities misguided?  When donations are made to foreign aid organizations - did you know that 90 % of that money is allocated to whatever the donor believes that country or charitable group needs - they impress their belief system on a cause that maybe they know nothing about...they have their best interests in mind - I guess...but the money is wasted on things that maybe these organizations don't really need.  Schools don't make cooking and sewing a required course anymore...it is statistically cheaper to buy clothes than to make them.  It is also statistically cheaper to eat fast food for one than it is buy food and cook it.

I read an interesting answer by an anonymous contributer about the labels that they are going to put on cigarette packages - covering 75% of the package with scary pictures about what people look like when they are dying from cigarette related diseases.  It not only cost our tax payers $4 million dollars for this ridiculous campaign - it is hypocritical - in my opinion.  If there is going to be so much time and effort put into stopping a health crisis they need to put an equal amount of effort in stopping this epidemic of obesity.  There should be scary pictures of a fat 2 year olds on pops and chips, cellulite on chocolate bars ... I could keep going but the point has been made.  We have a public out cry that says keep our kids safe from all of these external factors but we don't teach our kids how to be nice to each other, how to respect their own bodies and the bodies of others, we don't teach our children how to be tolerant of each other despite our differences physically, spiritually, culturally.  We hide our children eyes from the horrifically deformed child being pushed in a wheel chair to the local children hospital and do not offer an explanation to them.  In the same fell swoop we allow our children access to the most violent video games, movies and artificial entertainment available (and not so available) to them.

I am waiting for the day when the interference stops, people get a brain and quit whining about what everyone else has (or doesn't) and move on with your life - do the best that you can with what you have - stop blaming someone for the things that have happened to you - that makes you a victim...rise up.

This all started cuz I got some kids who are pretty great - one in particular who wakes up with a smile on his face every single day, he has no idea that people make fun of him behind his back ( I do and it makes me sad) , the main focus in his life is getting to play and have fun.  He doesn't always appreciate it when he can't have what he wants but he sure knows what he wants and he is really persistent.  There is no way on this earth that I would ever allow anything to ever happen to this little guy - but stuff will and I am willing to let him learn from some of it...and within his own capacity he will live in this world the way he was meant too.  I am teaching him that the people who don't get him - the ones who get angry at him for being himself, the ones who don't understand that he is a person too, well...most of them are just having a bit of a rough day and hopefully there is someone in their lives who love them enough to teach them how to have a good day , everyday no matter what.

My blogs are rambly...but so are my thoughts - I rarely get a word in edgewise when I have a conversation - if I get to talk - I don't get to finish...life is the way it is...I am good with most of it...even better when I get to sleep enough hours a night to make my day absolutely brilliant.  We are sitting an even "bright".

Thanks for reading.