If you are not reading Rude Cactus then I would like to suggest that you really should, if for no other reason than he is scary-insightful as well as scary-honest. An excerpt from today’s post:
In life, there’s an inherent trust all of us have to have in the people around us. Trust in the fact that the guy doing 60 in the lane next to you won’t decide to swerve and run you into a guardrail. Trust in the fact that your kids will be safe and well-treated when you drop them off at school. Trust in the fact that the people you elect to lead you, to establish laws, will do so with their own self-interests put aside. Stories like these, though, make me question that trust and whether or not it’s misplaced.
It’s taken me 35 years to realize that I’m not a realist as I’d imagined myself to be. I’m a hopeless optimist, which I think is something of an oxymoron. I believe the best in people until proven otherwise. I think you can you’ll always be successful being nice. I firmly expect things to work out for the best. Being inherently cruel, the world often has to prove me wrong. And it did that just this week with news items like those above.
(Go to the post to understand the last line.)
If that isn’t enough to grab you, he has the cutest freaking daughter on the freaking planet, Mia.
And if that’s still not enough, if you comment he replies to you personally in email* for every. single. comment. which at first I thought was weird but now I dig it. He might just say “thanks!” but when you understand how absolutely crazy busy this man is but he still takes the time to email each and every one of his commenters? Insanity.
*Oops, little detail. I meant to say “in email” which is the part I find strange.
I reply to every one of my comments, too.
Ooops, yup, sorry. I meant to add the detail that he emails each person a response to their comment, individually. Have corrected the post to reflect that.
That’s odd. I never trust people not to swerve into my car and run me in a guardrail - and that’s why I don’t like to drive anymore, I never trust the school to take care of my kids properly - and that’s why I teach my kids to protect and take care of themselves at all times, and I certaintly don’t trust elected officials to put their interests aside and do things “for the greater good”.
I guess I’m old enough to be an old man on his porch with a shotgun now. ;-)
And BTW, the title the cutest freaking daughter on the freaking planet is already spoken for.
Mikey, got you to comment, though, didn’t it?
I definitely don’t trust the guy next to me not to run me into a guardrail which is why I move my car over to the side a little when someone is passing me or I am passing them. Reflex.
And I really would prefer people didn’t trust school to take care of their kids. I am glad you’ve taught yours to take care of themselves. Nothing bad ever happened to me at school, but I’m convinced that was dumb luck.
My first time here!
I am one of those people that comment on a comment that was commented on by a comment.
Thanks for the new blog to read, which I also will have to find time to read. I am getting too many reads!
That whole sentence made no sense, did it? Sorry. Major headache going on.
Anyway, I trust no one. I am one of those people. They have to EARN my trust - I don’t just give that shit away. That includes drivers and school, etc. Basically, when you’re me and you assume 90% of the people around you are idiots, well - what other view could you have?
Of course you are awesome. :)
Preposterous Ponderings, welcome.
Sybil, you just made me smile. I needed that.