Soup of the Day

Get out of your pram!

Over the last few weeks I have noticed a great number of people moaning and growning that life is difficult and they can’t take the strain. IT seems as the weeks and years progress in my life, more and more people are complaining of injustices done to them from others and how the whole world, yes - not just part of it, but the whole damn world; is completely against them and only them.

Well sorry to burst the bubble that is keeping so many of you above water, but that’s just completely and utterly pathetic. Life is difficult, anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something. We all have problems of differing types and scales. None of these problems are more or less important than anyone elses problems, yet so many of us seem to think that we’re in a unique situation that means that “I alone am SO hard done by!”

I have frankly had enough, mainly because I have had some rough times in my life, some of which I probably shouldn’t have to deal with at my age, but did none-the-less. I certainly don’t think I am special or unique for this, but when I look around I see people complaining all over the place, it makes me sick - for two reasons.

Firstly, the problems they are complaining about would not actually be a problem if they stopped complaining and actually sat down for one second and thought about it properly. One of my friends has recently got himself into a spot of trouble with another girl in a story that is centuries old. He is panicking about these problems constantly and think’s that his world is coming to an end. This of course is very far from the truth and I have councilled him on a number of occassions about how he can solve all his problems. Even with all this friendly advice, he does not act on it and then like a broken record he complains even more the next time I see him. Which leads me nicely onto the second point…

Most of these problems these people have are completely of their own making. Most of the time a moment of thought before action would have prevented the fate they made for themselves. As obvious as it maybe to the reader, the trouble they find themselves in could have been easily avoided, but seldom do the self-pittiers realise this or practice it.

I have done a number of shameful things in my past of which I am not proud of, but I do not blame anyone for them other than myself. I wish people would start taking responsibility for their own actions because at the end of the day we are all human and we all make mistakes. Probably at this point I should mention that not all lifes ills are self-inflicted. Sometimes life just throws a curve ball that we just don’t know how to hit, but even then this is the same for everyone and still doesn’t make you and your problems any more unique. It is how we conduct ourselves after the event that defines who we are ultimately. If we learn and move on then all power to us, but the ones who dwell on the past and wallow in self-pitty, you have no sympathy from me.

Like I said at the beginning, I have had to deal with my fair share of issues, but I am one-hundred percent sure that most of you reading this have also. Those of you who cannot identify the fact that most of the time the real problem is yourself, I pitty you. You will have the hardest time living in this cruel world and probably will never be happy again. Those of you like me who have come through adversity and carried on regardless, you have my commemoration for your bravery. Well done you; bitch slap the nearest person you know who needs to get out of their pram!