I don't do that - it's such a silly thing you know.

Yeah well...if you were raped by your mother's, one-of-many "boyfriends" ...your mom took her food stamps and traded them for some crack, and you're constantly being shuffled in and out of homeless shelters and flop houses...you might want to "wear" your cry for help too.

OhDear

That is definitely a tragic reality of our society. However, the products of these horrible situations cannot be allowed to commit henious crimes as a result. "Wearing a cry for help" is the first sign of trouble to come.

Interesting you should point this out. It really does matter what you do with your discontentment. There exists a whole race of people that aren't satisfied if they don't have anything to complain about. You've been around them before, complaining about everything, and everything is negative. They're impossible to be around, am I right? So they have a miserable attitude because they're sad and they're sad because they have a miserable attitude. It's a vicious cycle, but so long as you recognize such wacked-out behavior as it is; a cry for help.

The traditional (and indeed biological and natural) route is to cry for help because we are still close to our original nature as a species-being. But, I personally went through about four or five years or so of major depression as a young teenager (from about junior high to about my mid years of high school) and found my own rather introverted route of a mostly mental and 'spiritual' (if I may use the term for sakes of communication) though also physical development. The problem with the former path is that there really no longer exists such stable institutions to provide such an environment that meets our species-being in our bourgieois system. Likewise, people are upset when things do not match their expectations. I took my own initiative because I had to, but unfortunately not all can do that. Each person heals differently.

Sometimes it's more important to be at peace with your surroundings than attempt to create them to match your expectations.

That's a great post Kat. I think we are wrecking our society with the stranglehold that kids are under these days. And they are acting out in many ways. When I went to school, I could cut classes, and even entire days without even being really noticed. Nowadays, schools are locked up like prisons and kids can't have more then a few unexcused absences or they are automatically failed. They have no outlets of campus since very few businesses allow kids to just hang out any more.

So now all kids have to do is just act out sexually, violently, self mutilation, or other things that many of us hadn't even thought about. If our kids are screwed, we have very little hope for the future.

I certainly respect your point of view on the topic and you do make a lot of good points. However, I think you are under the false impression that I've had a silver-spoon existance and haven't been touched by any tragedies in my life. You also seem to think that I have never done anything to help others.

The truth is that life's tragedies have indeed reared their ugly heads my way far too many times. It's also true that I have done things in the sole interests of helping others. The sad reality is you usually get fucked in the end when you display the least bit of charity.

Based on my life's experiences I've learned to trust very few people, and be damn careful on those I help because most people will seek to take advantage of you. The world is still mostly a very unkind place. I also get sick and tired of people trying to make me feel guilty over the sad plights of others. Finally, I don't care to be made a consequence of somebody else's bad behavior.