Posted by jay on April 12, 2006, at 20:14:13
OK..Here is a happy topic. Well...today I bought myself a burial plot. Now..no no no no..I have no intentions of using it until I reach a ripe old age. I just got it in case of..you know..accidents that are 1 in a million, etc. I don't want anybody to have to pay for mine. The nice thing is...it's just a hop away from where my best friend, at 19 years old and shot himself, is burried.
Now, most guys my age have these things done with a wife, and they have life insurance and all for kids and wife. I don't even have life insurance, otherwise I would. I am gonna buy myself a nice big house with no family to fit in it. I am going to buy a minivan with no kids to take to soccer games. ("Your time is running out..please insert 5 dollars in change.") Even if I had a baby with a women who didn't want to stick around or be a mother..that would really mean *something*. That sounds crazy...I know. A house doesn't make a home...don't leave me here alone. As far as superficiality..women are just as bad as men when it comes to looks and prestige. I am a social worker and work in non-profit because I *want* to...I'm never going to make no 80 grand a year. Tell that to some women and it's like they see *nothing* noble, or good in what I do...they just want the salary. (Came across that online.) I dress nice...groom myself nice and even though not in the best of shape..am working VERY hard at that. OK..I know what you are thinking...been around the block with this issue with Jay before. It reminds me of a song..."The Angels' share...in all of it's clandestine history...is seldom fair.."
It just makes me think about what people value in the world...after all of our history...horrible...a Holocaust...two world wars...the cold war, Vietnam, now the gutteral mess in the middle east, the birthplace of humankind (for some)...and because I put on 10 pounds, wore the "wrong" shirt, have just an average paying job, drive a used car, shaved all my hair off...I am not part of the secret things women talk about in Cosmo magazine. I am not part of any secret "manhood" thing...I don't read "Blender" or "Maxim"...why can't women be the same?
Sorry for the bummer...it just sucks right now.
Jay :-/
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