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Originally posted by dtb
As to your first point, I went riding this weekend with a friend, and we were in a field that didn't seem to have a way out except for over this barbed wire fence. He helpfully suggested that I should lay my jacket over the barbed wire so that if the horse were to graze his leg on the way over, he would just rip my jacket instead of hurting himself.
Uh... yeah.
(We found another way out, I'm sure you're all relieved to know.)
As to your second point, COME ON!!! Why the hostility, man? I'm at least as familiar as you with the obsessiveness of formerly high-powered-job moms who decided to give it all up to raise kids, so I'm not just talking out of my butt here (but that is a good trick at parties!). So they obsess too much; yes, they over-plan and over-analyze every last detail of their children's lives; yes, it's unbelievably annoying, but would you rather have them ignored and sitting in front of the television? Beaten? What, everyone has to raise her children the way you would? Geez. Leave 'em alone already. Raising children is hard work.
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a. My North Face handled the brabed wire well. No rips.
b. I hate obsessive people. I hate people who overplan and overanalyze and are directed and "on track" all the time and view life as some sort of bizarre race to be most organized, most put together, most directed to one goal. These idiots have made life move at an annoyingly quick clip for no good reason. Their sole reason for living appears to be some warped Darwinian need to ensure their progeny are the most likely to "succeed." Living life is not their goal - they seek to conquer it thorugh hyper organization - as though there was some way that they could somehow control every aspect of their lives. They're shitheads. Life can't be controlled. The best you can do is make as damn good a libving you can and surf the waves and plan as reasonably as possible to make things work out and get ahead. This obsession with high fucntioning super-orgainzation has created a speed-freak society of uniniteresting people. They know nothing but consume, organize, consume, organize, achieve, achieve. At the end of the day, most of them don't even know why they're doing what they do anymore. Its sad. Fucking lemmings.
Slow the fuck down. Think. Sit back and enjoy life a little. Its all you have and all you'll ever have. The kids are allright.
