September 28, 2010: Dear Katrina Victims, Quit being such pussies and grow a pair.

Excuse me for my inability to feel sympathetic to you and your families. I feel like knowledgeably living in a place that is below sea level and being emotionally distraught when it floods is just beyond my capacity for stupid in this lifetime. And to the celebrities that are appalled at how slow aid came to the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, either get your hands dirty or shut the hell up with your high and mighty "for the cause" publicity crap. Katrina was a disaster, don't get me wrong. But it was a disaster in a place that had it coming, knew it had it coming, and just couldn't muster up enough energy to give a shit. I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel completely justified in telling them all to suck it up, grow a pair, and get the hell over it.

Another obvious reason to tell Katrina Victims to quit being pussies is that they don't have it that bad. Compared to the rest of the United States and other first world countries they do, but that's not what the Katrina affected areas are right now. They are not first world areas, and compared to some of the third world areas of the world, they are doing GREAT. Suck it up Katrina victims, rural Africa still uses children as slaves. When you revert that far, then we'll talk. Until then, use your "First World" education and SUCK IT UP AND FIX YOUR SHIT. As a "First World" area you should have had emergency supplies. Did you? No. You should have made the appropriate emergency plans. Did you? No. Did you have the opportunity and ability to do those things? HELL YES. Why did you need aid? Because you fucked up. You took things for granted and fucked yourselves over. I'm not going to pity you, that's just not in me considering that you were ill prepared and chose to be that way when you could have chosen otherwise.

All that is really left now, is did you learn your lesson? Probably not. Did I learn anything from this? I should probably prepare for the natural disaster that will eventually hit Los Angeles. Will I? No. Will I give you free reign to talk shit when I don't and do exactly what you did? Yes. Will I be happy about that? No. But that's life.

Love, Polly.

September 15, 2010: The internet is not omiscient, take it with a grain of salt.

To begin with, I'd like to start with this fun little political cartoon. It tells you something very frightening about the voting public today. (They're all idiots.) Granted, I'm a swing voting Republican who believes in capitol punishment, strict immigration laws, and public works projects instead of this "Economic stimulus" nonsense. So sue me, but if you disagree then the floor will be yours in the comment section. Naturally, I'm also under the impression that the voting public is comprised of complete idiots who believe that government should get the hell out of the way unless we want money. I don't believe that we as a people are capable of true social responsibility. We CAN'T moderate ourselves, and because WE are incapable we have this wonderful entity called GOVERNMENT to do it for us. Because we don't know how to get along, we don't know how to compromise fairly. And you know what? I LOVE GOVERNMENT, even in this screwy teenage phase it's going through. Government only fails when we fail to be responsible citizens. How can you say that your vote doesn't matter? It only didn't matter because you didn't give it! How many people do you think said the same thing? "My vote doesn't matter so I won't do it" can't be going through just one person's mind. But it DOES matter, believe it or not. Your one vote may not be enough to tip the scales, our votes aren't that close. But for every person that does get out and vote, there is another. We rub off on each other, I promise. And when you vote, CHANGE HAPPENS. It's just a fact of life, folks. Voters change things as one man because they become one entity of solidarity together. If we want change, we need to VOTE. We need to be aware of how we can work within our government to create the changes we want to see. And we need to KNOW what we want, we need to KNOW what we DON'T want. When we bless ourselves with that knowledge, we become truly aware of the situations around us. And we need to learn to filter out the propaganda and internet nonsense that makes people believe President Obama, our Commander in Chief, is a Muslim. Remember being in school and having teachers tell you that Wikipedia may be a great place to get some direction, but to take things with a grain of salt because it's not all written by experts? Well, the rule applies to all of the internet. Make decisions yourselves, don't let the media run your life. Learn, vote, and make change happen. Be smart, and the changes will be sound. Please, do it for my sanity if not your own.

Love, Polly.

April 30, 2010: Maturity isn't something you just stumble upon.

We all have that stupid friend frustrates us because they won't grow up and handle responsibility. There are so many ways that irresponsibility is fostered it's no wonder they exist either. Just a fact of life that we have to accept no matter what goes on. Sometimes they even have the gall to tell us that we're being irresponsible with our lives as well, and we can't see where they happen to get off saying those things.

Being the friend who won't grow up, the friend who thinks they're all grown up, or just the person who is all grown up doesn't mean that we're ever in a place to judge anyone else really. I'm not really sure of my religious stand point yet, so I'm not going to be the person that says, "Only God can judge". But I'm considering the fact that there will always be the friend who won't grow up or who thinks they're all grown up, and not always the person who is all grown up.

But it doesn't really matter which of them you are in the long run, life runs it's course and you'll just have to deal with things as they come. For the people who won't grow up, they find ways to enable that, be it through their parents or other people. Maybe they just didn't learn the lessons that they need in order to mature more. And for the people who think they're all grown up, well that's great for them. If they're not, eventually they'll fall upon a hard time that will force some kind of growth, we hope. I've never met a person who could always say that they were all grown up, and had become everything they wanted to be. Even Bill Gates wants to be a person in a perfect, healthy, livable world. He has money beyond the imaginable, and he still goes to help those who are less fortunate. Something inside him says, I am not yet the person I want to be and I cannot be that person until the world is functioning in a way that allows that. Not to say that he's unfulfilled or unhappy. I'm sure that he experiences both those pleasures. But something compels him to do those things, and that is the knowledge that the world is not in a state that he can be the person he would love to be in it.

As with each variation of persons, there is a variety of ways to handle it. You can complain or try to help foster the things that you believe that person should have. Personally, I think the only way to combat any of the issues with irresponsibility is to work yourself. Strive to mature, mature your thinking, mature your beliefs, and mature your moral and ethical code. The body matures at it's own pace and there is little you can do outside of wishing or hoping on your own to help spur the process. The mind is different, when you expand it, you grow. With growth comes maturity. I'm going to strive to grow, and I'm going to strive to be better in all the ways that I can. Instead of complaining or badmouthing, I'm going to push myself to show the most responsibility I've ever shown in life. Self-responsibility and social responsibility, together.

Love,
Polly.