ardour said:
Plenty live banal lives coasting along with minimal effort, yet find themselves with friends and an SO as an adult. And that probably describes you to some extent. Kids, child support/alimony from a wealthy ex, plus men interested in dating you. Yet others who have careers, study, make the effort to join interest groups and socialize end up with none of this andd we’re supposed to believe that you somehow earned it, while they didn't.
It's like some obnoxious libertarian labelling all the poor lazy.
First, I don't get, nor do I want, alimony. I could have gotten it, I didn't want it. The reason I take child support. Oh, maybe because I pay for EVERYTHING. Medical bills aren't cheap in America. Neither are clothes and food, so yeah, I take it, but I certainly don't spend it on myself. And I'm working on getting myself self sufficient so I can transfer it directly into my children's bank accounts, not mine.
My ex is NOT wealthy. Never has been. He
could be pretty well off, but he chooses to blow his money on stupid ****. I have more money than he does and that does NOT include the child support I get. In fact, HE owes ME money because over the years, it's been ME who has loaned him money for various things.
So wait, I don't have a career, study or put effort into socializing? Yeah, that's why I volunteer and I'm on the PTA at my kids' school and I go to support groups and whatever else I have time for?
Don't you dare tell me I didn't earn what I have, because I can assure you that I most certainly did.
As for the people who don't have what I have. As I have said a million times before, you can't honestly expect to be negative as hell and get very far. I tried that whole "blame the world" thing. It didn't do **** except make me wallow in my miserable existence even more than I was. I owned my faults, I changed what I could and I made it work any way I knew how. I struggled and I failed a lot, but I never gave up. It took me YEARS of seriously hard work to get to where I am now, so yeah, I most definitely earned what I have.
You, them and whoever else whines and blames others. I don't know, because I don't know you. But what I can tell you is that I 100% believe that nearly everyone (sorry, serial killers and the like, you don't count) deserves to be, at the very least, content in their lives. But, it certainly won't be handed to them on a silver platter. Do the work necessary. If that doesn't work, try something else until you find something that does. And don't spend years saying the same things over and over again like that is going to change anything.