It's not always about you eh

When I was growing up the adults around me used to tell me that you have to look for that big break. And more often then not it doesn’t come easily. I’ve never been one who had opportunities handed to her on a silver platter, at the same time; there have been some which I decided just wasn’t for me.

Now that I’m an adult myself (or at least that’s what they tell me) I see a lot of younger people around me not appreciating some of the breaks they’ve been given. I know that they ought to be considering themselves fortunate because these are opportunities a lot of their peers crave for. Yet, they make excuses not to excel in them. It’s going to make me sounds like an old foggie saying this, but it’s disappointing. It’s disheartening.

I think people today are too caught up with having an ‘issue’. Even though they are normal healthy individuals they like having something that makes them stick out in a crowd. It’s disturbing when people start wanting to stick out in more ways then just having psychedelic multi coloured hair or oddly placed piercings (god I must really be getting old). All this self inflicted depression and destruction is starting to annoy me. There are more ways to have people’s attention focused on you then to constantly have a problem in your life. Especially when you know the people around you will genuinely rally around you to see you through it. When it gets to acts of constant whining or sudden bursts of neediness then I get the hint that what they really want is all eyes on them. They don’t realize that sometimes it’s someone else’s moment and it’s just a selfish act to steal their thunder.

Or I’m just increasingly less tolerant of the whole ‘damsel in distress’ and ‘I come from a broken family so my life just must be screwed up’ and ‘it’s so much pressure being a teenager’ drama. Don’t patronize the people who actually have these situations and don’t insult those who come from those backgrounds and have made a good life for themselves.