Suck It Up

Our family motto has always been: Suck It Up. When you fall down, suck it up. When you have chores to do, suck it up. When you feel sick and don't want to do anything, suck it up. When you have to work at a job you hate to pay the bills, suck it up. When life just doesn't go your way, suck it up. For the most part, that saying has helped me get through a lot of hard times. Especially when I was working at a job I hated more than life itself. It made me fight through the tough times and get over any problems I was having. It also made me hate sucking it up. I got so tired of having to suck it up and do what needed to be done. I'm 23 and I am tired. It's not like there is going to come a time when money isn't running low. There are never going to be bills that I don't have to pay, or some random expense that doesn't just pop up out of nowhere. I don't see a silver lining or a light at the end of the tunnel. I feel doomed to live a life of partial happiness because I will always have the motto "suck it up" playing over and over and over in the back of my mind whenever something shitty happens. Yes I am aware that people have it worse than I do, but we live in a society that is selfish to the core and right now I am being selfish instead of sucking it up. So suck it up and deal with it. I'm tired of being tired. I'm tired of sucking it up, and I'm tired of doing what needs to be done instead of what I want to do. But as always, I will just suck it up and deal.

Haiti

The situation in Haiti is very sad. We all get that. But what I don't understand is why everyone is jumping to their aid yet they always fail to help their own country. I get that Haiti is a 3rd world country and does not have the means to help themselves. I think it is great that we can help others and come to their aid when they need it. My question is what about us? What about all the help that America needs. We have children stuck in homes that they need to get out of. We have children who are starving to death, living on the streets, being raped, murdered, beaten. We have families that can not make ends meet, that can not feed themselves, parents who don't have jobs, people loosing their homes. Is any one coming to our aid? We are expected to help everyone, every country, but we can not help ourselves and no other country comes to our aid. We need to help ourselves before we help other countries.

Hell if I Know

I was reading a friend's blog and he said that you should write about what you are passionate about. This should be interesting since that changes on an hourly basis.