I strongly believe in personal responsibility. In today's politically
correct world that doesn't make me very popular.
My attitude is to
irresponsible whiners and their sympathizers what garlic is to vampires.
That suits me fine. I can use the time I would have spent trying to get
them to shut up and go away to fix the barn roof that a tree fell over
on last spring.
While I don't want to offend anyone who doesn't deserve
it, I will not stand idly by while some little nimrod is trying to lay
the responsibility for his/her own actions off on someone else, i.e., "I
stole that car after killing the driver because I'm emotionally scarred
from my mommy spanking me when I was little." Bullshit. "You did that
because she didn't spank you ENOUGH." "I stay with him even though he
beats the shit out of me because I love him and he loves me." More
bullshit. "You stay with him because you're too weak to stand on your
own two feet in the real world."
When someone tries to tell me what a
lousy lot they've had in life and that's why they are the spineless
imbecile that they are, I tell them, "When I was nine, I saw my father's
blood all over his bed the night he was accidentally shot and killed.
Then I got the shit beat out of me by an alcoholic stepfather. I am a
volunteer emergency medical technician and firefighter and see lots of
unappetizing things. I have seen more emotion-wrenching things in my 29
years than the average person does in a lifetime. So, if I can be a
responsible, well-adjusted adult, so can you. If you want to use your
bad times as a crutch, get the hell away from me. And, while you're at
it, grow a backbone so you won't keep trying to borrow mine."
I am a
29-year-old female independent painting contractor. I also run my
family's 200+ acre ranch. I do have a hired hand who helps me pull trees
off barns - I'm not so arrogant that I don't know my own limitations.
But I am self-confident and intelligent enough to know that those
limitations do not include "birthin' babies and fetchin' dinner." Oh, I
wouldn't mind being married someday. BUT if it means having to spend the
rest of my life with an emotional child who has enough baggage to keep
UPS busy all year and whose idea of being a real man includes
subjugating his wife, I'd rather be alone.
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