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Feb. 15th, 2006

The river is low and the sky is high and wide with stacked clouds, the days are getting longer and winters grip is receding. Today is beautiful, I am going home to a man who loves me, to wrap ourselves around each other. I have my guilty pleasures, a bottle of Dr Pepper, a chocolate muffin and a copy of some terrible women’s magazine which I will write a ranty report on at some later date about all its anti feminist indoctrination. Out on the estuary the water is reflecting the silver winter sun of its rippled surface and tilting my head back the sun resembles a full moon, and mostly today I am feeling lucky to have everything I have, to be able to do this beautiful train journey every time I go home, to be writing this on an incredibly expensive machine that somebody else paid for to be listening to good music. To know there are people in this world that love me, to be able to afford fripperies and sugary crap that I in no way need. To be warm, to be safe, to know I have a roof over my head, to have a fridge full of food, to have access to a damn good education. To have a house full of books, to be, more or less, healthy, to live in a society which, despite all it’s myriad faults, is not going to lock me up for speaking or writing my mind.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Thea Guilmore - Land of the free

As long as you have, a roof above your head, clothes on your back, food on your table, access to education, people that love you, decent healthcare nobody owes you anything most people on this godforsaken planet don’t get all or even most of these things. If you have these things you are in fucking clover and should perhaps stop whining about how unfair your life is. Everybody knows that life is unfair but it seems to me that those who complain loudest about this actually already have a large slice of the pie, often with custard. Life isn’t easy but there is no reason why it should be, The world does not revolve round you, does not even revolve around humanity and even if it did there is no reason why you should get your own way all the time. It is actually incredibly unhealthy and lacking in social skills not to be able to cooperate and compromise with other people.

My life from the perspective of the society I live in has been damn hard work but actually on a global scale I have been so lucky and if I have been lucky so have you. Everybody gripes, I will give you that, I have no issue here, we all have bad days, things that irritate us, everybody gets hurt and upset but crying because Mummy and Daddy won’t take you exactly where you want to go on some foreign holiday is in my opinion pathetic. At least you have parents, at least they can afford to take you on holiday. There are so many other times and places you could have been born, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, parts of the developing world, rural china.

Do you think maybe instead of emo whining about your life you could perhaps walk out of your bubble and work out how to make things better for others? Do you think perhaps you could think for one single second that everything is not about you?

Current Mood: irritated

under the cut Is the bare bones for a "myths about Rape" poster that Sinead is going to design for International womens week, was wondering if I left anything important out?

Also need ideas on celebrating being a woman to balance up the rape/domestic violence campaign if any one has any ideas

( Myths about rape )

Guilt	What is yours?	Explain yourself
Culinary:	Dr pepper	erm Sugary caffineated crap produced by an evil multinational but it has to be done!
Literary:	Terry prachet	Because I have to turn my brain off sometimes!
Audiovisual:	Disneys Robin Hood	Fabulous for falling asleep to
Musical:	outcasts "Hey Ya!"	Dancing round the kitchen is a must sometimes
Celebrity:	Does dangermouse count?	I dunno, maybe he's my soulbond or something!