I Hate…

Yes, things I hate …

I’ve been listening to the radio a bit recently while I’ve been working (and I drive a semi in case you haven’t read previous entries). I’ve gotten sick of most of the music stations because they just keep playing the same songs every few hours, so I listen to the talk stations.

One thing that is really getting to me is how, when they are talking about news or current events, they refer to everything as a “tragedy” whenever something happens where someone dies in a newsworthy way.

An 11- year old girl is shot through her kitchen window (on accident) while doing her homework, and it is instantly a tragedy. A retarded man in Chicago dies from electrocution after climbing a barbed-wire fence to go piss on an electrified elevated train rail, and it’s a tragedy. Two people who are pissed at each other die of their own stupidity in an act of road rage, and on the news it becomes “tragic”. Some sheik farts upwind of his enemy and thus starts a “holy war” in the mid-east, and it’s a tragedy.

I am SO (let me emphasize SO!!!!!!) sick of hearing what people think is “tragic” or is a “tragedy.”

It seems that every time someone dies in a way that will catch people’s attention (and thus make the news) it is deemed a “tragedy.” In all honesty I hear it at least on a daily basis. Is it possible that there are that many tragedies occurring?

What people fail to realize is that there is no rule that says it is the right of every person to live until they are 120 years old. They either fail to realize, or most likely fail to accept, that death is just a part of life (although more accurately, it is the end of life….but still a part nonetheless).

I honestly don’t think there are any tragedies. In fact, I laugh at the things that people think are tragic. No lie, I really do. When I see accidents, I laugh (which does happen occasionally since I spend all day, every day, driving). When I hear about people dying doing things that I deem “stupid,” I laugh. In fact, when I got out of the shower and saw my first glimpses of the 9/11 attacks, I was laughing too.

No lie. I saw that and though, “Hell yeah!!! Lets have a war!!!”

Maybe I’ll get my wish.

Another thing I’m sick of hearing about is the phrase “quality of life.” You would not believe the amount of ads there are for old folks’ homes on 830, WCCO (if you’re in the Minneapolis area). And every ad is talking about how they can improve the “quality of life” for someone who is old or dying or both. They also talk about this a lot in the ads for the Parker Hugh’s Cancer Center.

Now I’m going to risk sounding inhumane here, but I’m going to ask the question anyways. “What does it matter if someone has a “high” or “low” quality of life (as they say) if the person is dying anyways?! Are they going to care after they’re dead? No! So why bother?

Anywhosw, of those two things I’ve talked about, the “tragedy” thing is the one that pisses me off the most. I honestly don’t think there are truly “tragic” things that happen any more.

But I gotta quick post this before the computer goes haywire again. So until next time…

Question EVERYTHING.

“I’m loosing my sight, loosing my mind. Wish somebody would tell me I’m fine…” Papa Roach