| Assuming the best and the worst |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|05:49 pm] |
Isn't it funny how people are naturally imbued with certain skills, talents and abilities? Some people are natural musicians, able to conjure musical genius with nothing short of a zen-like calm. Some are athletes whose physical prowess and coordinated grace is the envy of all around them.
Some of us are natural parents, like my sister.
And some of us don't have any particular definable skill at all. No singular, unique talent to mark us as special or incomparably functional.
Some of us learn our skills.
Some of us have an ingrained ability to deal with the horrible, terrible events which inevitably assail our lives with unforgiving frequency. The Jack Bauer Factor if you will. It's not a fun skill to have.
Something I haven't talked, or written much about - the loss of my Dad. Y'see on the 7th October he suffered a massive stroke and passed away at 2.55sm on the 9th. There was nothing that could be done. He was 53 years old.
I suffered through the Jack Bauer Factor for that. I found him. I called the ambulance. I was with him through the entire ordeal and yet, despite my best efforts and those of the medical professional's I encountered, he died.
Just like that.
Now I see people going about their lives with their God given talents and the arrogance that comes with them and I don't resent their gifts. I resent their shortsightedness, the fact that these blind fucking simpletons wander so blithely through their lives taking everything for granted. I object to those who think themselves beautiful, who parade societies perception of perfection and expect to be rewarded and revered for a contribution they never make.
Fuck you and your kind.
When you bleed and you hurt and you're at death's door, you tell me what you left behind, what your almighty right is to have everything handed to you. Where do your blessings end and your torment begin? You walking fucking irrelevance. |
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