JAWC Volume 2 : I'm surrounded by grasshoppers... I don't know what I want anymore, I have so much advice to help me that I no longer know what the hell it is I should be doing... and when brought to the idea of what I'm doing now... I can only think of what I'm doing is that I'm getting pissed off... and over the most annoyingly trivial bullshit too... and it sucks... it really fucking sucks. I mean, everytime I ask what I'm doing, it's usually answered with, "I'm getting pissed off."... which in of itself is pretty damn annoying... but shit, I don't know what I should do to stop being so damn angry at everyone and everything that's stupid... I mean, people are always putting up with stupidity, but when I have to deal with it, it pisses me off and I don't know how people can put up with this stupid shit and let it slide as though it's a perfectly normal situation... This brings me to the main topic line up top... I'm surrounded by Grasshoppers... I'm an ant. This is fact. Almost every person I know is a grasshopper. Let me explain... see there's this fable about ants and grasshoppers, whereas the ants are busy storing and preparing for the winter, the grasshopper is playing around not doing any work, just enjoying the summer days and being pretty damn frivolous, eventually winter comes and the grasshopper which fooled around and didn't prepare saw the ants surviving while he was dying of cold and hunger... and the grasshopper while dying then and only then realized he should've prepared for this situation... When you don't prepare for the future, you are damned to fuck yourself over cause you didn't care to do anything before the crisis hit you... why is it that people deem it necessary to try and bail themselves out only after they realize how screwed they are?... what posesses these people that things will work out when it shouldn't... I prepared for a worst case scenario, only my problem was that I relied on a grasshopper... and I'm now screwed because of it... and it's annoying because I prepared for this situation only to have it foiled by an idiot that didn't prepare themselves... go fig... I mean, this guy should be punished by what he's done, but instead he used the ant's storehouse to supply himself and screw over the ant... yet he's always going on about how blessed he is, but the foundation of blessings happens to be the crushed remains of good people... he's a liar and a theif, and when push comes to shove, I hope that this happy dream world he built up will crumble beneath him and he suffers for doing such atrocity. Another person I know waited until the last minute to get things done, and because of that they saw there bank account drop to almost zero... and although the world should have it that they suffer for there frivolous spending, there disregard for monetary value and there need to go places when they couldn't afford to go, they're bailed out by other people... and these people are reinforcing these bad habits, cause everytime they screw up, they can just throw down some sympathy and BAM, instant money... so they'll be damned to keep upon this cycle, and I too feel badly for them that it happens, but I'm glad they got the help they needed.... It does not mean that I have to keep endorsing such actions. I have no sympathies for people that had the means to prepare and didn't bother... it's a huge difference if they weren't doing well in the first place, or if something happened that caused the tragedy beyond there control... but when you purposely refuse to prepare for the coming months and squander your time, money and priorities.. you deserve the smackdown god gives you... Now, I realize that I don't have a lot going for me, and others might see my lack of success as pathetic themselves, but I have my priorites, and, well, sure others may look down on me and think that they're better than me because I'm not meeting their standards, but I can live with that... because after all, in comparison to them... I am an ant... and they are grasshoppers... they're pathetic and shameful people, regardless of how successful they may be. Most of the people I know ARE grasshoppers. These people are successful in relationships, life and craft, however success doesn't make you a smart person, nor does it make you better than other people. Cause after all is said and done, you're still grasshoppers... Welcome to it. - Tiki Man