So, as you'll probably guess, this is my first ever blog post. Anndddd.... I'm talking to myself! Wuhoo, Wuhoo! *Bangs head against nearby wooden object in self-depreciation*. Anywho, I'm a British teen with strong opinions on this world and the matters it brings to the table.
If you really want to stalk me - I mean learn about me in detail, check out my profile. I think. Otherwise, just keep yourself updated with whatever rubbish I happen to spout! I promise you, there'll be some golden nuggets (not the cereal, but yes, the cereal. Oh my God, Golden Nuggets!!) in with all the tosh.
The first annoyance I'll be covering on here will be my stance on whiny, "oh noes, my life bad" western brats. Yay!
So, I was talking to some American girl online (nationality has nothing to do with it, by the way), and she had this to say: "I hate my life cos I have nothing and nobody cares about me". Poor girl has to live in a small house, she only has access to the internet when her sister's laptop is free and she has to eat cheaper brands of food than many, as well as having to put up with those annoying parent thingies. Aww, bless.
Let's imagine what's happening right now as you read this post, there's some lil' Kenyan kid, yeah? He's eight years old, he's got no parents and he got HIV from his mother. He drinks out of the village toilet, I mean river. He lives off whatever he can bloody find.
This kid, somehow, gets to swap places with this American brat. Said brat kills herself, or rather, is killed within a day by forces unknown. The African kid sees a house. A house. If he had a mouth like mine, I'm sure his initial reaction would definitely be something along the lines of "Fuckingham Palace!! :D".
Life is all about circumstance, and it shows how unfair circumstance can be when you have to drink where you tinkle. I beg of all you emo's, and all of you other assorted whiners, take a trip to Africa - your education will make my head a nicer place.
Hmm... I could have written that better...
ReplyDeleteSo now I start commenting on your posts one by one, Alex.
ReplyDeleteFor this one, let this much suffice: to see the same kind of contrast within the same country, you should come to India. It's virtually two countries living cheek by jowl. As a famous Indian economist has observed, some parts of this country enjoy the lifestyle of the most opulent in California, while hundreds of millions live in conditions familiar to people in sub-Saharan Africa; and the first is entirely oblivious or contemptuous of the second type! Sympathy for our less-fortunate fellow human beings is not one of the morals taught to the children of the well-off any more...