‘Tis the Season
Well it really puts a different spin on things when you learn
someone would be glad if you were dead. Suddenly I don’t want to tell the world
where I’ll be when.
The sad part is the person who wrote me such a thing may not
realize it, but he’s actually carrying those feelings on behalf of someone else
who’d probably indeed be relieved if I were dead, so my side of things would
not be heard. Unfortunately, his way of
coping typically is to externalize his problems. So I hear his voice out of
others’ mouths. A painful legacy of
sorts for all involved.
It’s also good to have a couple of cops in my life who care
about my safety. They’re keeping a list, checking it twice…
Two children in the Bronx got a shot mom for Christmas. She
had the nerve to recognize her unhappiness and take responsibility for her
life. Imagine the disobedience, acting like she owns her own life and has a
right to the pursuit of happiness! She let her husband know she wanted a
divorce. The next day, with their children in the house, he shot his wife
twice. Thank God, she will survive. He was caught in Maryland and is under
arrest. Neighbors said he was such a nice and quiet man. They were shocked he
had a gun. Everyone seems typically safer from these nice men when they are not the wife or girlfriend.
That still had a happier ending than the poor rich family in
NJ.
And there was the cop – yeah, the ones we are supposed to call
for help -- who shot the mother of their child. She survived. He’s on bail. It’s
sickening. He’ll probably have parental rights too like he didn’t try to kill
the baby’s mother for Christmas. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yonkers/2015/12/27/nypd-sgt-shooting-yonkers/77942932/
I knew a man who would refer to his girlfriend as “unpredictable”
because she didn’t have a curfew (like one gives to children and teens). I knew
her too. When she’d go out with friends, she truly didn’t know what time she’d
be back. She was grown, self-supporting, and hadn’t lived under parental rules
for many years and wasn’t looking to. He’d threaten her with “I don’t know if I
can be with such an unpredictable person.” She’d wish he’d leave then and get a
doll or an obedient dog. She knew she would feel very bad, but she also knew
she’d get over it. In the larger picture of one’s life, it’s not a great loss
to lose someone trying to cage you.
So, people, New Year’s Eve is almost here. Who thinks
compression stockings are sexy?
vs. 
