Unappreciative Rugrats

(Before I begin, I just want to point out that the 2 month delay between entries is due to the lack of proper ranting material. Anything in my life that is not even remotely funny or angsty cannot be put in this blog. I forbid it.)

There are some things in his life that may seem intolerable to some, but I can pretty much handle it. Take for example yesterday while watching Fear Factor (when I say watching, I mean it was on and I there was nothing else better). While I witnessed both my dad AND my uncle squirm in sheer terror watching grown men puke out live stink bugs and curdled milk, I watched in slight fascination and exasperation that grown men can be such sissies. I can also handle loooong episodes of boredom, thanks in some part of the single siblinghood that I grew up in.

But what I CAN NOT stand is how some people can be so ungrateful with what they have. Never mind the Porche in the driveway and the first class education that you are getting. Nope, it’s never enough.

Then again, some people are just born whiners.



What they have
When a person gets something, or receives something that they may or may not have deserved (assuming it’s a good something), then that person should be grateful. Right?

WRONG

Trust me; you think you have it bad? You have no idea what these privileged people go through. What with no money worries and all. The top-flight education they receive is nothing, never mind the rest of us stuck in what the snooty people call “cattle-class” education. Granted, life is what we make of it, but how can you compare a 15K education in a developing country to a 20K per term education in a world-class institute, renowned for churning out Cambridge and Oxford graduates.

What they want
Sometimes I don’t KNOW what they want. Do they WANT a meagre life? Chances to scrabble around the dirt for missed opportunities, and work their ass off for a place they could just buy their way into? Granted, some really make the best of those chances and still search for the qualities that money cannot buy. What I’m talking about here are the ones that complain and whine and moan about the harshness of what others may see as a golden egg.

You never know what you have until it’s gone. Hugh Grant’s character learned that in 2 Weeks notice, Counting Crows learned that with Big Yellow Taxi. Its time for the ungrateful and SPOILED lot of them learned that life ain’t all peaches and cream.



But Whyyyyyyyyyyy?
I’m not sure why some people are so selfish and self-obsessed, as if the world revolves around them and their misery. But I’ll try and clarify.

Attention
Living in a household where money is no object, most people tend to lean towards the materialistic aspect of being well-off. Given that if you have a computer, you aren’t poor. Just to make sure you don’t claim to be a poor little kid and place yourself in the same level as the starving child in Ethiopia. To be clear: attention is not asking you father for more money in the hope that he’ll say no and beat you. No, that is not asking for attention, that is a mental defect. Attention is whining on and on about something that is clearly not a problem and making yourself out to be a martyr of some kind. Repeat after me: you are not poorly. You are not unfortunate. Get a GRIP and go waste your breath on someone who CARES.

Acceptance
“All your friends are poorer than me. If I can’t be poor, I’ll act poor so I can fit in!”
What a brilliant plan! When your friends find out you’re an impostor, not only will they despise you for lying to them, they’ll probably mooch off you as punishment. And the worst part? You’ll probably let them, seeing as you don’t have real friends anymore. At the risk of sounding cliché, be yourself. So what, just be cause you are more privileged than your peers, you don’t have to flaunt it. They may be awestruck in the beginning but they’ll get used to it and like you for who you are, not who you WANT to be. Movie morals: learn them. God knows, Disney has drilled it into our culture enough.

Character
If the above 2 don’t apply, then it’s probably a character defect. That is, you don’t have enough of one.
Spend a little bit more money and treat yourself once in a while. More than likely, you’ve been holding back spending and going into denial whenever people say “oh, you’re rich”. If you can afford it, get the rich complex out of your system and you’ll acclimatise to the vast wealth that you have. It’s not a bad thing to be rich, you know.
Run around a bit more, scrape some knees and fall down more. Bruises build character (especially those on the face [just kidding {no really, black eyes are cool}]).

And as a footnote, I’m confining this blog entry to those who are rich and whose friends keep telling you to stop whining. This has been a community service message.