Well, I've never really considered myself to be heartless or a bitch... taken
literally, I couldn't be the first on medical grounds, and I couldn't be the
second because I'm male (run, run away..), but if the main requirement
is an intolerance for stupidity and immaturity, and a possession of some
degree of intelligence and maturity one's self. I certainly have that.
I believe all people are created equal, sure, and I believe everyone
has the potential to be a good person. I am not, however,
blinded to the fact that a disturbing percentage of the
world's population are either immature, shallow, obsessed with trivialities,
or simply morons. Sometimes I try to talk to these people,
to understand how they can possibly be happy enough with their current
situation not to try and get out of it... but it doesn't take much of
that to figure out just how thick some people's skulls really are.
I'm a cynic, I guess. I'm not jaded, and I'm not bitter,
though, and if I'm given cause to sneer at flowery optimism
now and again it's only because I know how real life works.
I don't think of myself as a hatemonger, but so much that
I see in the world around me disgusts me... and all too often
one is maligned for expressing that disgust. I've been through
my hate-the-world phase, though...I'm not sure exactly
how it happened or when it happened...sometime early on in
high school, I believe...but somehow I managed to tap into
the tiny part of the world that represents the intelligent,
assertive population....people who actually see the same things
I do, and are as disgusted by them as I am. That was one of
the most profound discoveries of my life...it's kind of ironic
to see people brought together by a shared disgust for the idiocy
around them, but at the same time I think it's way it should be.
I hate infomercials.
I hate religious fanatics.
I hate liars.
I hate double standards.
I hate Newt Gingrich.
People constantly point out that I am always talking about things which
I hate or an repulsed by, and I'm sure plenty of people see me as a
hate-filled little gremlin. Really, that's fine with me.
I see a lot that's wrong with society as it is today,
and I'd worry about myself if that same society didn't see a lot wrong with me.
I don't WANT to be normal. I don't want to be a prancing flower
fairy. And for heaven's sake, I don't want to be complacent amidst
all the filth I see around me every day.
There are a lot of wonderful things in this world, and I enjoy
and appreciate their existence. There's also a lot of crap, and
I feel compelled to point that out on occasion. I don't recall
precisely how or when I came upon HBI, but I've always enjoyed it.
This is the way people were meant to be: intelligent, assertive,
defiant. I like that.
Yes! I want to read more from Real Life Heartless Bitches
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