02:30 am
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/35491247/8355616) [Link] |
Insomniac
Ok, so maybe my daily naps serve as no more than adding to the frustration of me not being able to fall asleep until 0400 am every night. After much tossing and turning and endless thoughts of course. I could always blame it on that wretched ADHD, but would rather not, seeing as how I lay the blame on that condition entirely too often. And who's to say it's even real? So there's millions of kids that are behaving a little rambunctious, a little too loud, and a little too energetic. Automatically they are fed mind enhancing drugs, speed if you will, so mom and dad can be proud of them, and maybe spend their evenings home from work in a more peaceful manner. What happened to using good old fashioned Benedryl? A couple teaspoons, and they drop for the night. Just Kidding!! This tactic was never used on me, but I've heard the stories from other people. However, I was diagnosed with (adult) ADHD at the age of 18, hardly a rambunctious child, but far from a responsible adult.
What happened to wanting to see your children off to school, being there for them when they come home, and being that Mom (or maybe Dad) that's right there with them on the field trips, at the soccer and football games, or packing their lunch with a little note that says, "I love you"? Watching their first steps, hearing their first words, watching them roll over the first time, and bonding with them deeply? Maybe it's me. I don't know. It would break my heart to stick my baby some day into day care at six weeks old. I'm certain not everyone has the option of being there at least the first year, and more than that even. But I do believe that a child's development is so dependent on the parents and the environment surrounding it in it's early years.
I was warned today to fill up my gas tank and keep topping it off because of the enormous price spike predicted to happen any day now because of hurricane Rita. Is anyone else just sick of this? I mean the gas that is in the tanks at the station was bought at a certain price, and yet, tomorrow that gas that was bought at a certain price some time before could be $4.00/gallon, instead of $2.79, and they are claiming this isn't price gouging? Where are all the liberals that argued the ONLY reason we are in Iraq is because we want to steal their oil? Well...where's the oil? Why haven't we started pumping it to the United States? Because we aren't in Iraq for their oil. Not to mention that the media is really what fuels the steep price spiking. They panic people into a frenzy, and all hell breaks loose. It's really sad.
My predictions is that the middle class society is going to in the near future have an economy similar to the 80's. Now, I'm no expert, but I know in my own situation, everyone in my family over the past 10 years was able to move into nicer homes, buy nicer cars, have almost everything we wanted within our budget constraints, but I think with the situation the way it is, and the impending doom of inflation, we will be forced as a whole to return to living with what you have, maybe without all the extra frills. Our generation, us kids in the family, couldn't ask for anything more. Most of the people I know that are my age, were always taken care of financially by their parents, and were provided with anything they wanted. It wasn't the same for my parents. They knew what it was like to struggle growing up in the city, whereas I have been in the suburbs for most of my life. They know what the value of hard work and education is, even if they had to make sacrifices in their own educations in order to provide for their families. My prediction is we will be going back to a similar time such as this. I think people like me will learn the value of sacrifice and needs.
And how can I protest these fuel prices? That's a cause worth fighting for. Not undermining the lost lives of our troops by whining that we shouldn't be there, bashing our federal government's handling of a catastrophe because of race or poverty issues (I feel they did the best they could do given the situation), or fighting about a man's beliefs on abortion because of his religious views.
Goodnight.
Current Mood:  drained
Current Music: the fan in my bedroom
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2){kind=small}
lieblich_dame's journal
