[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]DickBag wrote:
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
First of all, to you two guys who think she doesn’t seem too bad–um, that is her ‘pageant’ face. You can tell by her mannerisms, the careful way she keeps her back straight, the slow fade in smile. It is a rehearsed facade that is that has been taught to her as being necessary. You are not seeing the real her, you are seeing the her that her parents taught her to be.
That said, she might be a nice person in real life; it doesn’t really matter, because she shouldn’t be the focus here.
Someone should punch her clueless parents both in the face. They have severely messed her up. Imagine if she gets in a car wreck, a nice piece of glass cuts her from chin to forehead, and she has a scar for the rest of her life–her entire freaking reality exists around the face. She has been told her entire life that it’s the beauty that matters, the face, the looks, the glamour. If something in the cruel world takes that away, her entire identity as a human being is lost. Imagine thinking that you know and understand the world, and with one cold slap of reality, everything changes.
Not only that, but her parents do her school for her?? Seriously??? They have raised her to be shallow, uninformed about the real world, unprepared for the real world, unable to fend for herself in a world where no one actually cares one iota about her, and they see nothing wrong in what they have done?? !!
People disgust me.[/quote]
I don’t really think her parents are that bad. Yeh they seem a bit OTT with the looks and all but then again, in your own words, thats all for the camera. They are hyping her up probably to get her known. Thats how its done. to be honest, theres far worse parents out there.
And if something happens like you said “to take away her pretty face”, she will be unhappy, and then deal with it. just like me, my hand is fucked up and i cant train now maybe never again, tough shit, i took up fishing.
Like kids, when they are told santa doesn’t exist, they cry and grow up. Humans adapt. When we leave the parents house we shake off a few things here and there and develop into ourselves.
You were a bit extreme to be honest with the “her entire entity as a human being is lost.” relax the kaks would ya.
and as for that christmas tree every day, i dont agree with that but then again, she will probably grow out of needing presents every day.
shes only 15 for fecks sake, yeh shes arrogant, spoiled, vain and full of herself, but so are a few of us here on T-Nation. myself included.
but relax with the “doom”[/quote]
yea humans adapt … or throw themselves off a building
18 yr old kid climbed to the top of a 6 story building in my home town last week and jumped off because his gf broke up with him … it was his second and most successful attempt.
You make it seem that ALL people adapt when they don’t. I don’t think this girl is capable of adaptation … say she go her face cut up in a car accident her parents died in … ooops no more safety net. Now she feels the cold breath of reality do you honestly think a girl who CAN’T MAKE CEREAL FOR HERSELF would survive? I love your optimism, but come on man[/quote]
I’ve seen completely helpless people Change in the face of extreme pressure and become granite. I have also seen heroes crumble under the same pressure. People are funny. Sometimes the ones we expect the most from deliver the least at the most important times and the ones we expect the least from show up big and surprise everyone. The one thing I do know is that tough situations show someone true colors. Seeing as this girl has had not even a single one yet, I don’t think we know what she is capable of.
Back to the topic at hand, her parents need to be lynched at the town hall and this girl needs to me taken to a farm and made to work it till she graduates HS at least. And she aint that hot, her mouth is kinda messed up or sloppy or something. Seriously, WTF is wrong with her parents? They think they are doing her a favor, but they are setting her up so that she can never take care of a damn thing herself. What they think they gonna live forever? Dumb twats.
V[/quote]
and sometimes you see what you expect out of people … dickbag said it best and your point about us not knowing what she’s capable of is acceptable, however since she hasn’t experienced anything remotely close to challenging I’m going to say she hasn’t developed the fortitude necessary to overcome adversity … you’re giving her the benefit of the doubt but I won’t …
But we do agree that he parents are dumb twats (pronounced twOts not twAts rhyming with hats) … so we’ll always have that V[/quote]
I don’t think fortitude is only developed. I think it’s seeded into peoples DNA also. I really don’t think she even knows herslef at the given point in time. I basically look at what she is going through almost like a 15 year long drug binge. Who the fuck can say who she really is or how she would respond to some stressful real life situations. I mean she obviously lacks the KNOWLEGDE to do almost anything for herself. But then so did we all at one point. Knowledge can be gained. It’s the stuff inside of us which makes us be strong under pressure. I don’t think that has much to do with a persons upbringing.
For instance my upbringing was identical or as nearly so as you could get to both of my sisters. Yet thier fortitude is miniscule compared to mine. The life challenges I have dealt with and overcome with barley a shrug of the shoulders. Most people just shake thier head in disbelief, they come to counsel me over some situation and within a few minutes they realise they are the ones getting the counseling and that as usual I am doing just fine. My sisters however are both unstable at times. My one sister went through a stage in her life where she couldn’t find her pack of cigarettes in the morning and just broke down and started crying on the floor. She stayed there doing nothing for several hours.
I don’t know what makes people tick, but I know that she was raised in the same house at the same time (2 years younger) had the same schooling, etc… Our values are pretty much the same. So why does she crumble over a lost pack of smokes, but I can go through some really heavy shit and not even blink?
Anyways, I’m just rambling now so I’ll stop.
Kthxbye
V [/quote]
Maybe the difference between your sisters’ fortitude and your own is BECAUSE of the similar upbringing? Regardless, even if fortitude were engrained it would have to come from her parents who are brain dead morons … apple. tree.
PS, are you sisters hot?[/quote]
I am not at liberty to say such things, but others have said it. Actually my younger sister is too hot for her own damn good if you ask me. Bit of a man eater if you will, lots of drama.
Kthxbye
V