Lemme tell ya something. I've decided to be on "Blogger" because I hate the concept of blogging. Absolutely hate it.
But I'm told that having a blog kinda makes you write.
I'm a girl. Not like most girls. I hate most girls. And by girls, I mean any female about 5 years to 55 years. In my experience with them, they are fickle, mean and tend to be drama-seekers.
Not so with me. I'm going to touch especially on "mean" today and would like all the single ladies (yeah, I went there) to think on this. I have three stories. Gonna tell em in the extremely short version:
My friend was seeing a girl, and hooking up with her on occasion. They were definitely headed towards a relationship. One day, she said, "We should talk." Turns out she was seeing more than one guy (only ever hooking up with him, though) and chose to get "serious" with another one.
My other friend has had some mild to not-so-mild feelings for this girl off and on for years. She's led him on, then dropped him, led him and dropped him over and over. He did everything for her. Was there for her all the time, the list goes on... And who knows why?
Yet another friend was dating a religious girl (you know the story is already gonna get ugly). He did everything - went to communion classes and church with her, obeyed ridiculous curfew rules - just to be with her. She initiated a physical relationship, but acted like ever LOOKING at a girl was a HUGE sin. He's smart - he couldn't grasp how their sleeping together was any worse than his looking at someone.
Girl number one: Bitch. Long and short of it. That's just awful. My friend has had to keep me from killing her. I know where she works... LOL. But, seriously. Girls, if you're seeing more than one guy, make sure they all know. Yeah, you gotta play the field, but don't screw with ANY of their emotions.
Girl number two: Seriously, we're not 12. Don't do the lead-on thing. That's just cruel. You get this guy attached to drop him and get him attached again. Which means you're just looking for ways to hurt people. And should probably be shot. And this part where you're using the guy? Yeah... Something worse than shot should happen to you.
Girl number three: K, you religious psychos. There's no nice way of putting it. But if you're gonna date and be "unequally yoked," you probably need a quick reality check. They aren't going to live up to your religious, over-legalized standards. 'Cause they don't care. So don't get the guy doing everything for you, being your arm candy, and making it clear they're a puppy dog on a leash unless you're willing to go the whole distance with that and deal with the fact that the average guy isn't turned OFF by a strip club.
That's my point for today. I've had way too many guys need to dump on someone about who horrible bitches do to 'em. And it's uncool. It needs to stop. Clearly, this isn't the only way women screw up and screw with men, but these are three recent examples and all three of these women need someone to smack 'em so hard they don't know what hit 'em.
So that's just the mean ones. I'll probably get to drama-lovers and fickle-bitching sometime this week.
I don't wanna sound cliche or anything. But Mondays tend to either be blah or complete suck fest for me. Today, it's basically suck fest.
And I blame Saturday. Yeah, I really do. Today wouldn't suck if I hadn't REALLY been hit by the fact that my little brother was getting deployed today. So today, I'm waiting for the reality that Nathan HAS BEEN deployed.
I know some of those reading this have had friends and family be deployed. I have also. This isn't altogether new to me. My other "little brother" got deployed almost two years ago (is back now) - a Marine in Afghanistan. And no offense to Nathan, but this kid said, "Yeah, National Guard in Iraq is pretty much pussy shit compared to what I did." Granted, a large part of why he said it that way was to comfort me 'cause I had just found out and wasn't too thrilled with the idea. But, I'm glad. 'Cause it's comforting me now.
Something I did not know on Saturday when it hit me is that Nathan won't actually be leaving the US until the end of June. And then he's in Kuwait before Iraq. And during all of these location changes, he'll have a few days where he'll have phone and internet access. So, in the long run... Not really that huge of a deal...
That's not to say it's not going to be hard and it's not going to suck. We haven't been that close for about 3 years anyhow. But, it's just weird. It's one thing when I can just randomly decide to talk to him and get in touch with him. Now, if that happens, I won't really be able to get in touch with him. At least for a while. And what's weirder - I'll meet his first kid before he does. That is one thing I never expected... But what can you do?
Basically, all this to say... it's weird. Life is weird. And I don't like that his actual deployment was on a Monday.
I know I’m not the first person to tell you. But I decided to be a tad more intellectual than usual today and discuss this political act that has just taken place. And to start the conversation, I’m going to post some of the reactions I’ve seen on Twitter and Facebook.
·A prince gets married, the bad guy is dead. It's a real Disney weekend here on earth. #osama#obl.
·may #osama be stuck in limbo watching jersey shore season 2 for all eternity. bahahahahaha.
·OSAMA BIN GONE
·Without Good Photos, People will Not believe it We must see photos of bin Laden dead. High resolution images should be released at once.
·Re-writing my fav Woody Guthrie song. This land ain't your land This is land is our land So take a dirt nap So long Bin Laden
·"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
There were tons of song parodies, opinions, snippets of comedy, etc. The reaction was like a landslide in a matter of minutes of the announcement.
My reaction, quite honestly, was mixed. I was stoked that it was finally done. Bin Laden is gone. Finding him has been a part of my life in the sense that it’s been an issue for all but 13 years of my life. Terrorism has been a war that people I know have been fighting for almost my entire life.
His being shot in the head is a nationwide victory.
Victory is a good thing. No, it shouldn’t a “happy” occasion, but we should all be glad that one huge step against terrorism has been made. Sure, it’s a life. Therefore, it could be argued that it’s sacred, but honestly, he shot himself in the head by killing thousands of people. Innocent people. He knew it was coming, knew that he wasn’t going to 100% get away with it, and knew he’d be found. His declaring war on the US how he did was basically Jihad, his being responsible for it was like Kamikaze-ing.
From what I’ve read, it sounds like just apprehending him would have been acceptable, but he was armed and ready to shoot, so of course the Navy SEALs who had the hardest job to date in this war on terrorism were going to shoot him. Not only would they look like pussies for going in and just getting shot, but their lives would have been wasted – for lack of a better way of putting it. Getting tied up in the morality of how they “took” him would have just allowed the war to continue on the path it’s been on and their families never would have seen them again.
No, this doesn’t mean that large “parties” in the streets were 100% “moral.” Like Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness.” But these people who are happy that bin Laden is gone aren’t “rejoicing” that he’s dead. His death is a symbol of why they can rejoice for a new life.
In the wee hours of this morning, I was listening to TV and the interviews that took place with random people who were at the White House cheering and the people at Ground Zero who were cheering. They weren’t happy someone was dead. They were happy at what it symbolized. And had every reason to be celebrating.
One woman said that her husband was in one of the two towers when it got hit. His body was never found. She said that bin Laden’s death gave her an overwhelming feeling that she could finally move on. She likened it to a mother who had been mourning the murder of her son and the murderer finally being brought to justice.
Another woman was in the Pentagon when it was hit by a plane. She then fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq. She was wounded in Afghanistan. She felt like she could move on, like everything she had done was for a reason. That she could truly heal now.
For me, I know soldiers who have come back from fighting this war for your freedom and mine. Some of them are well adjusted, some have PTSD, some have alcohol addictions or other types of dependencies. None of them came back the same way they went.
My little brother is going to Iraq in a couple of weeks. Because of this war on terrorism. I haven’t had a chance to talk to him about his feelings on this bin Laden thing, but I’m sure he knows it’s a victory and triumph for his country – which he’s going to risk his life for. His first baby is going to born while he’s fighting for your freedom.
He wrote my grandfather a letter a couple of weeks ago. Gramps has been telling him, “Never come back the way you went.” His point is that if you “go on a mission” from camp, come back a different way. The enemy may have trailed you and knows where you are and’ll get ya on your way back. The way my little brother wrote it in the letter had a more ominous meaning to me (whether he meant it or not). He’s not going to come back from Iraq the same way he went. He’s going to be a new person. It’ll be scarring and life changing. That’s almost guaranteed. He’ll see things he’s only seen in movies – but worse.
My point is kind of convoluted. I’m happy bin Laden is dead. I feel like those who were “rejoicing” in the death of one have reason to be. I don’t think people are really sitting around excited about his death – I think it’s the symbolism of death. It’s a huge step towards ending the war on terror. It’s a healing step for hundreds of thousands of Americans. So, yes, it’s something we should be deeply happy about. That isn’t to say that we need to be these horrible people who are excited about blood spilled. It’s the symbolism of what this means that is good, exciting, and worthy of being happy about.
That said, if you're on the "Don't rejoice" side, try to recognize the real reason that the rejoicing is happening. Tell someone who's been scarred by battling for your freedom that you're thankful for their part in ensuring this terrible man was brought to justice. And if you're just excited to be excited, to bear in mind that he was a person. A human like you and me, and according the news, many of his friends and families loved him. And their in mourning even if this dude was a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE man.
