What the fuck is wrong with you?
There are a hundred things going right in your lie right now, and all you can do is fucking complain about the tiniest things – like the fact that it’s snowing today, and you don’t like driving in the snow so you can’t go to the store (which is within walking distance).
There are SOME people with real fucking problems. —STFU
This article appears in Dec 12-18, 2013.
haha talk about a martyr complex. Tell us again, op, about how people taking a few minutes to bitch about their day harshes your jesus complex.
“There are SOME people with REAL problems!” Holy Christ… of course there are. And tell us op, what do YOU do to help those people? On a daily basis, what do YOU do to help those less fortunate, make your community a better place, sacrifice yourself to save another?
Oh nothing? Ok then.
Your life is a lie.
Might as well go for a soda, er, um, coffee.
Excellent idea, Klyde. Nobody hurts. Nobody cries.
It’s human nature. OP. Every now and then people need to reminded that others have it much worse. Most people can come to this realization by themselves.
But there’s always going to be some annoying, self-annointed Old Testament type Prophet of Doom who takes it upon themselves to aid in the process. (Hint: That’s you)
They tend to take a lot of stick and deservedly so. That’s human nature, as well.
Think you have it bad, take a walk in Kanye’s shoes……
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/12/13/yo…
First world problems OB.
How’s about you stop bitching about bitchers and get out in the real world and do something useful?
Like offer to walk to the store for this person who CLEARLY can’t fend for themselves. 😉
Think of how cool it would have been to be here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHHjP7XrBq0
I would like to see op throw themselves on the live grenade that is Human Misery.
I don’t know.. op maybe you are the unsung hero of our time. But more than likely you typed this on your mac, snuggled in a Starbucks.
In life more than anything else it is important to not be a hypocrite. I’m totally superficial at times. Totally selfish and totally sophmoric but at least i’m honest about it. If you’re honest with yourself, it shames you into realizing you have to make changes.
You can argue, downvote and “whateverrrrr” me all you want op. At the end of the day, your face is the only face you see in the mirror before you go to bed. You know who it is you lie down with at night.
Decide right now who you’d rather invest your sermons in. Everyone else. Or yourself.
And op, just so you’re aware… that little speech i just gave makes ME feel ashamed to be MYSELF.
Thanks for the lesson. I understand and hear your frustration. Be the change you want to see. I’ll join you.
If I could “like” Scissors’ comments a couple of hundred times, I would. She gets it.
Ima gonna bore y’all with a personal anecdote now.
There’s a lovely lady who works at the headquarters of the Gulag and she runs a sort of clearing desk where she fixes problems that all of us regional Zeks forward to her. Now, I will emphasize, most of the problems are caused by third party suppliers so this lovely lady is NEVER the target of our e-mails. In fact, speaking for myself, I try to phrase my e-mails in such a manner as to give her a bit of a larf. Which has gotten both of us in trouble on occasion when she has forwarded said e-mails, unedited, to people who have no appreciation for tongue in cheek honesty. But, that’s a boring anecdote for another time.
Anyhoo, this week we learned that her husband has received a serious medical diagnosis and the prognosis is not good. That makes two couples I know who are going to spend Christmas dealing with major, life-altering, medical problems and, as cliche as it may sound, Boy-Howdy, does that ever put my own petty chickenshit problems into perspective. As long as I have a healthy SOBova, a warm furry moggie at the end of the bed and a stack of unread war books on the nightstand, it’s all gravy. But, that’s an internal realization. Not one delivered by a finger-wagging mullah who has declared herself the arbiter of perspective.
Not one person in this world could have said it better Ivan, this time of year I reflect on all that I am and have and to be truly thankful, cause my little trivial problems, are just that, TRIVIAL, my problems are just a drop of water in an ocean to all the millions of people out there who truly have serious problems and life and death issues.
Amen, Uncle #Otterbox.
I will add, though, that some people cope with the big stuff by worrying/complaining about the little stuff. I TRY to keep things in perspective, myself (i try to live by ‘it could be worse’), but I know a lot of people who have big stuff going on who never complain about that but will bitch about small stuff like the weather.
So, I ask you, ob: who are you to judge how people cope with life?
The four times I’ve had to call 911 for my mom, the time my dad went into septic shock and his lungs collapsed and everyone thought he was a goner, I was more focused and emotionally stable as I ever have been. But I have freaked the fuck out for a few minutes when I lost my bus pass (or so I thought) last month. So fuck right off, ob. You never know what people have gone through, or are going through.
Throw your shoe at them like a ninja star! then say “Damn, can’t drive you to the hospital now either…. guess you have a REAL problem now!” sprinkle some crack on them and be on your way.
yes and may i say actually that I have faced both terrifying misery and everyday annoyances and the feeling is totally different. With the former, the brain goes into overdrive, the emotions take a backseat and often don’t kick in until after the crisis has passed. Along with the knowledge that you have survived, learned something, grown as a person. You feel grateful for the forces in your life that helped guide you to the other side of the disaster. It is a milestone in your life.
Everyday annoyances are much more depressing in the moment. Because you can afford the luxury of being annoyed. So be annoyed! Because the reality is that you don’t have that luxury when things REALLY go wrong so enjoy it! Revel in the slutty, passionate honesty of it. Say “Fuck you snow!” and mean it. We’re all on board.
So it’s no surprise that people complain about the weather. Not to mention it’s also a time-honored canadian passtime. No matter what sort of nonsense posers try to thrust upon you.
Just be grateful for a world where complaining is the immediate reaction and it’s unlikely you’ll wind up in hell or anything 😉
Think of it this way:
Complaining is how you deal with things that aren’t traumatic. So don’t you feel bad about it for a second, buddeh. Just be aware that you have first world problems (or at least comfort problems) and be grateful 🙂 Complain with as much comedy as possible. Be silly. Try to make people laugh by using your annoyances. That’s gratitude.