I’m sorry if this bothers you, but I really have the need to continue my last post now…
The following story may be a bit depressing, so if you are easily influenced, try not to care.
I mean, people are just such f*cking idiots. For crying out loud.
Let me describe you a person… no particular person, but just a general type.
He lives in a really bad neighbourhood. In a rubbish flat with 1 room, a bathroom and a tiny kitchen. A flat which was last renovated in 1979… He has a wife/girlfriend and a small kid. The only jobs he gets are small and pay little. The only skill he has got is renovating stuff, but he doesn’t have (or make) enough to renovate his own home. His wife doesn’t love him…
But he’s got a car. And a nice one. But he never travels more than a couple of miles to the centre of the town and is always out of gas. And when his friends ask him for a favour, at least a small ride to the shops when they are sick, he charges them as if it was taxi service.
He drinks a lot. More than 10 litres of pure alcohol per year. Maybe even 20. He is thoroughly in debt. He has got all kinds of loans on him.
Now, if he sold his car, got a job and stopped drinking, he could probably support his family and get out of that rubbish flat into a nicer home, and then could also soon afford a car again. But he is too afraid. He’s afraid of having to walk. But he wouldn’t. It’s a lot easier to get on a bus than drive. But he’s afraid to look like a loser. He’s afraid to look like a loser to his friends who have very similar lives. And all of them are afraid.
He sits home, watching rubbish television on his 15″ CRT television from 1996. His wife/girlfriend doesn’t even speak to him. He has a cheap laptop, but that he bought when he was still living at home.
And what does he do all about it? Absolutely nothing. He just sits, watches TV like a zombie as the bills pile up and his family starves. And it’s all his fault. He had children too young. He never got a good education. He screwed up his life. But his still has his car…
And there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of these people. They just sit. And watch.
And you know who’s to blame? The society.
But not always.
Life is depressing, at times.
I mean, especially around here. People are miserable. People are losing their jobs. And those who don’t lose their jobs, get reduced pay. Cut by 30%. And that’s a lot if you’re only making $1000/month (you’re left with 700, which is taxed, and you’re left with $530 a month. Which is around $120/week. Which is not exactly a lot.).
And television isn’t making things better. They say it needs to be realistic, but that’s bullsh*t. Every single local show I’ve seen on local television makes you want to commit suicide. I’m not surprised the suicide rates are high around here. And, for once, I don’t blame them.
Really, television shows are really depressing. There’s one called Secrets, which consists of people sending depressing stories in and actors re-enacting them on television. What horrible sh*t is that…
You know what, there are even more depressing shows on television. Even the comedy shows aren’t funny anymore…
What the hell has happened?
And you’d hope that at these depressing times television would want to cheer you up. But it doesn’t. It just pours more oil into the fire…
Is it all due to the recession? I mean, life was a lot worse in the nineties around here, but nobody complained then. In fact, people were happy (and a bit drunk, but mostly happy). And television was funny.
What the **** is wrong with today’s society?
