Saturday, January 21, 2012

the way adults view children part 1

so i've questioned the way adults seem to view children in this day and age, at least in the United States. mostly how they seem to think that children are inferior to adults and so forth. as a kid i hated it! and i still do. age shouldnt have anything to do with how people respect you or how they treat you. i remember being about 11 or 12 and always wondering why i always had to do things to please adults, not even parents but friends of parents and stuff like that.
i remember one event in particular that really pissed me off in my early teens. so for my birthday in 7th grade my mom and her fiancé took me to orlando, Fl for a week. it sounded fun to go again but they brought one of my mom's "friends". they werent really that good of friends, my mom was mostly using her because of her parents' time-share.
well the day that we were supposed to leave started off badly. it wasnt really an age conflict but more of a, hell i dont know what to call it! but so what happened was the night before i asked my mom's fiancé what time i needed to wake up to leave for the airport, he told me 6:30. sounded fine, so i asked my mom if that sounded fine and she said that i could probably sleep in until 7. i told her what my step dad had said and she said to still go ahead and wake up at 7. well her being my mom, i listened to what she said and slept until 7. so i wake up some up stairs to get something to eat and her fiancé started getting mad and yelling at me about how he had told me to get up at 6:30 and how i had made it so we were going to be late and all that. well my mom, who had told me to sleep in was standing right next me while he was yelling at me. i tried to explain that she had told me otherwise but he wouldnt have it. she wouldnt stand up for me which in and of itself pissed me off.
but so then we get to florida the age conflicts started to take place. we get to the time share and it has two bedrooms ann then a couche in the living room. well there was a master bedroom and then another smaller one that had two twin sized beds in it. well in the time-share, it was my mom, her fiancé, my mom's "friend" and me. me mom and step dad took the master bedroom and then her friend took the other room. she was only using one of the beds so i asked my mom if i could sleep in the other. she said talk to hert friend about it so i did. she said no because i was a kid and it wouldnt hurt me to sleep on the couche and that ind of stuff. i knew it wouldnt hurt me but it seemed that if there was an open bed then it might be  nice to actually have a bed as opposed to a couche. and i know, i can see how she probably didnt want to share a room with a teenager, but it was the fact that she had said that it was just because of my age that pissed me off.
this was part 1 i guess...ill probably do more on this kind of age difference thing but as always any feedback or your views on what i thought of the whole situation would be greatly apriciated. have a great day!

"bad words"

Oh my god! so i started thinking my 8th grade year and some of the stuff that happened over the course of those what nine months? but so anyways one of the things that has always found it's way creeping back into my head was why people seemed so mad about the action of saying anything with any " bad words". ive always been against the whole thing. i dont see why it matters so much because fearing the word or whatever just makes it have that much bigger of an impact when you say it. if people are accustomed to hearing other people constantly dropping F bombs, then the word has less of an impact. to paraphrase something from Harry Potter, " fear of the word just increases fear in the thin itself". its the same thing. if you just walk around saying Fuck You to everybody instead of good morning, the chances are that they will start to care less and less about the word itself.
 then i started to think about how people always wondered why i cussed so much...i mean i cussed A LOT! but it wasn't because i thought it was cool, or whatever, i did it because i was tired of it being such a social stigma! i hated when people would get so bent out of shape because somebody said shit. it didnt make sense to me. it's a word in the english language no different from clock, foot, car or any other word. its just because somebody decided it was offensive that it became unacceptable to say.
personally i could care less how people express their emotion or their view on something. i think it's ridiculous the amount of time parents and other people put on trying to make sure kids dont say any " bad words". its a waste of time. using the word 'bloody' in a sentence in England in the 1930's was so frowned upon,  but now it's more accepted and people care less about its use. why? because people stopped caring!
either way i would like to know if i am alone or if others agree with my reasoning on things of this nature...ny the way this is my first blog so if its not arranged in the best way possible, then im sorry...any feedback would be greatly appriciated! ;)