I worked with my brother and dad digging dirt for an old couple somewhere near my old Elementary. After that, went to kung fu.
Oddly enough, the class seemed small… Oh yeah, the children weren’t there…
I’m not that much of a fan of kids, to be honest… I think I said that before. If I ever have kids, I’d do everything in my power to raise them right.
Which helped inspire some random bout of thinking while I was washing dishes. I watched Cars again to check the details in the art, and took note of the shading in the rock formations, and faint reflections on asphalt. It’s something I do.
Anyway, this random bout of thinking really kicked off when I started thinking a little too much about something that I came across on Facebook. Although what I thought about really applies, I’d rather not make this a direct response rather than my own opinion on the subject in general.
That subject of course is Parenting.
I’m no father. Although I did turn into a second uncle at the age of 12 (older cousins)
Wait, that doesn’t count. I never met that second nephew.
… Let me try this again.
I’m no father… Wait, I said that. Whatever.
I’m no father… BUT I do believe that I have a bit of a good idea from what I’ve heard in some of Alan Moore’s interviews when the inevitable “What do you have to say to our fans who need inspiration?” question comes up.
That is the fact that there should be no ceiling that kids should have anxieties for. Their parents should not be natural images of their future. The kid’s dad could be a doctor, but the kid suddenly does a U-turn and takes on Politics and later becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.
Of course, that’s an extreme example, but it puts up a point: There should be no limitations to what a kid could do to be successful in life.
Although being able to kill people is illegal by universally accepted human rights distributed in the Charter in Canada and also by laws initiated by the United Nations… And then we’ve still got massacres around the world… I’ll just stop digressing.
Even if you should not throw on limits, don’t bloody encourage them to be the best of the best of the best of the fucking best. That’s called over-encouragement.
You should not expect anything more of your child other than the best skills he’s got. If he or she needs help, all he or she needs to do is ask. You don’t know your child, despite the genetic relationship.
I admit it. I don’t even know my own parents. Do you really think they’d really know me? And yet, they think they know me.
The only person who truly knows you is not your psychiatrist, not your parents, not your best friend, or your boyfriend or girlfriend, or fiancee or whatever. The only person who truly knows everything about you is you.
Why is that? It’s your bloody brain! No one else owns it. Only you do.
Of course, everyone has brains and their own imagination and their own opinions. That’s theirs. Yours is yours. Morally-speaking, some can be worse-off than others, such as an obsessive need to beat a wife.
I’ll admit: I can be one of those sadistic nutjobs. However, I’d do it to anyone. ANYONE. No discrimination, no race, no religion, no specified targets. Only the ones who piss me off and who really deserve it.
Parents feel that they have to know their child. In reality, they only have to know themselves much better. They need to realise that the only thing that they really have to have is balance.
Everything needs balance, and that especially includes the human body.
The human body is the most important set of scales in existence.
You see those obese nutjobs down in the States? That’s an imbalance. See those guys who are parched, where you can see their ribcage poking through their skin, where they wheeze for water and gasp for food and ultimately starve? That’s an imbalance… not to mention a little frightening…
Take care of your body, and it will take care of you. Vice-versa, as bad as it can sound. That’s what my Sifu says when he talks about exercise and the philosophy of martial arts in general.
Sure the kung fu allowed me to get along a bit more nicely with my Dad and brother, I know for a fact that I will never truly know them, even if I figuratively or literally put myself in their shoes.
I have my own way of thinking, so does everyone else.
To the parents who may be wondering why their kid is acting so strange, avoiding you at all costs? Preferring hanging out places other than at home?
That basically means that you’re a source of anxiety and stress on their part, in one way or another, from one level to another. You’re annoying them, and they want to escape from that.
I sure do want to escape sometimes. However, the friends I have seem to take me for granted, and thus I’m building my wall. Not sure what to fill the empty spaces, though.
Apart from Dad’s… non-medicated nature, everyone in my family tends to get along. Although my brother and I are more and more getting a little sick of each other.
But hey, eighteen years of sleeping in the same room can really do something to any mind.
We get along nicely otherwise. Why is that? They don’t enforce such high expectations or low expectations. They figure out a balance. I like this balance, and it’ll only get better once we move out to Bunker V.
Of course, at this point, it really occurred to me that I really am a blessed guy. I couldn’t continue washing the dishes, suddenly depressed that everyone else has such serious problems and my problems will only get worse if we turn into idiots and cause everything to go tits-up.
I then wished that I could at least pull someone out of the creeping hell that is family problems. I can’t, however. I can only add my opinion. If I ever got involved, then ideas would lash against my own, and it’s like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. And when the volcano finally erupts violently, someone will end up dead. It will not be me, however, and I will be the one to blame, and whoever’s connected to the person will be pissed at me, despite the fact that I had confirmed that the son-of-a-bitch really had it coming from the time we argued to the point where words became somehow useless.
A moment of silence as I stood at the sink… Could I save anyone without ending up murdering someone else?
I’m caring this much about trying to pull people out of sheer hell, and I really don’t know why. Is it love?
Due to the stupidity of Pop Culture, Stereotypes, and the overusage of the word “Hate”, I’ve developed a twisted meaning of the words “Love” and “Hate.”
I mean twisted. They make sense, but I had seen reactions that made me think “I’m a fucking twisted guy.”
BUT THEY MAKE BLOODY SENSE! SOMETHING RELIGION HAS FAILED TO DO, YET IS MORE POPULAR THAN FUCKING WORLD WAR FUCKING 2 AS A GAME GENRE!
Geez…
I’m no fan of religion. Never will be. I won’t even worship the sun. The Sun is an inanimate ball of plasma that just happens to supply light to the world.
I developed my own Supreme Diety, and he makes sense, and he is interesting. He’s not an all-knowing-all-loving being who puts on such strict rules with punishments that we don’t even know ever existed.
Seriously, hell? Hell on Earth is far worse than Hell itself, and these days, Hell on Earth turns into cake-walks.
I’d eat Satan’s beard for breakfast, and then spit it back into his face and watch him cry… and then do it all the same for every other religious Supreme icon who existed…
… Except for Buddha, who actually existed, lived a twisted life, and became a better man out of it.
I’m no Buddhist, actually. I don’t believe in reincarnation. Once you’re dead, you’re done. All that’s left is your rotting corpse and the memories of others, which will die with them.
I’ve always thought this way even before I found out about Fight Club.
Anyway, Parents need to learn to develop a balanced way of raising a child. They should raise a kid for the sake of raising a kid, not to develop a strong, loving slave to take care of them when they’re older.
Seriously, Old Folks’ homes. They may not be appealing, but they’re there for reasons.
The biggest reason I can think of is that the Parents did a poor job at raising their child, and now said child despises their guts and put them in one of those places just so they don’t have to work to take care of them.
The second-biggest reason I can think of is that said Parents did not do a good job at taking care of themselves. I’ve known and heard about people who’ve lived to grow big, strong, and well to a hundred, yet still have the strength to lift cinderblocks without throwing their backs, or the durability to not need a cane or a walker or a chair. That is, people who did not screw up, or be unfortunate cancer-diagnostees.
The way I’m going, I hope to at least get close to ninety. Chances are I won’t, though.
Even still, the sole reason I’d want to have kids is to show them just how good humanity’s got it, and then show them how we’re taking it all for granted.
That’s a lesson I learned in the play Our Town. Very touching play. I got nominated in some city awards thing for lights design for that play at our school. Not appreciative that I was the only one who actually worked on the lights, yet the Stage Manager ended up getting the nomination with me.
It was not a matter of pride. It was a matter of “Why the hell would my teacher do this when it’s obvious that I did all of the work that was required for the nomination. I designed the lights, and I designed them by myself.
Oddly enough, I STILL hold a grudge on that. Although since I figured out how much bullshit that nominations thing really was full of, I sort of stopped caring. But seriously, this medal I got would look good on a resume… somewhere…
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… I really am alone… What’s the point of this wall if there’s really no one to try to isolate myself from?
Of course, some can say that I’m taking my… friends for granted by building this wall. However, I’d rather not try to dig into their skulls to try to figure out what their problem is.
No-doubt, it’s an emotion-related problem. Here’s my advice for emotional problems…
GET A FUCKING GRIP! No one’s going to care about you until you actually figure out how to solve your mental and emotional problems that just drives everyone else bat-shit crazy. No one wants to waste resources on something that can easily be fixed with well-used time, and only be fixed by well-used time.
That’s what Psychiatrists try to do. They help you manage that healing element of time, allowing you to clear thoughts.
Of course, a good round of meditation can do the exact same thing, except you won’t get attacked by Scientologists… But these days, they’ll attack anyone who’s not them.
Alan Moore also said that the state of the world is not the fault of Nazis, or Fascists, or Communists, or Muslims, or Scientologists, or Catholics, or Buddhists, or Australians, or Americans, or whatever. It’s caused by you. Every single one of you, and that also includes me.
Humanity caused the sorry state the world is in right now. It is up to humanity to suck up, grab their dick, and double-click towards creating a better world.
These days, I feel that I’m the only one who’s actually not crazy. Of course, that could be a symptom that I’m the only one that’s crazy. But read this post over and think on it.
Also, before you say anything, no. You will not ever come close to truly knowing me, even if I write every single thought I have in this blog. SQUIRRELS!
See what I mean?
-HolyJunkie.