I don’t know why this website encourages me so much. Someone is bound to say that I’m some weird sick-o that likes to hear about people at their worst, but it’s not that at all.
It’s that I can identify with these celebrities. I haven’t been homeless and living on the streets, but I’ve been pretty damn close. My life has been rough at times and I have pushed on and persevered. If these people can be at even lower points than me and then gotten to where they are now, then who knows where I can go from this point in my life that isn’t that bad.
In other news, my teacher for my Wednesday business class is a moron. While discussing business decision-making, one of his points was,”Beware the law of unintended consequences.” He tried discussing the Three Strikes Law and tightening the borders. He tried saying that the Three Strikes Law makes criminals perform worse crimes when they know that they are going to get their third strike and they want to go out in a blaze of glory. Get this: he says that tightening the borders makes the “new Americans” not want to come here to work and live in Mexico because it’s too hard and expensive to keep running across.
Well BOO FREAKING HOO!!!! Think I give a damn rat’s ass if we make it hard for a “new American” (a.k.a. Illegal Alien) to come across the border to work without paying paxes? How about me caring if we send a hardened criminal to jail for life because he did a few extra bad deeds? The answer is NO.
Boys and girls, that is all for tonight. I need to start paying attention to class. My teacher is starting to talk about Portgate (the selling of the ports to the Dubai company) and I just informed him that Dubai is not a NATO ally and it goes through a different review process. What an idiot…
Edit: After trying to explain myself to Nikki a bit more, I’ve decided to add this about the first part (regarding the homeless celebrities). Reading where these celebrities have been reminded me that they, too, are human. They go through struggles and it is comforting to me to know that I am not the only one who goes through rough times in life. For some, just a story about ANY homeless person might make them realize this, but hearing about celebrities that have triumphed over the odds gives me a special kind of home because I aspire to be a name that people know. It sounds corny, but “I want to be like them” (to a certain degree) and to know that what I’ve gone through and what I may have yet to go through can not and will not stop me from acheiving my goals and my dreams. That is why I was encouraged when I read the page.