Just to forewarn you, this is going to be a rant. I'm ranting because I'm ANNOYED with people.
I've just been thinking lately about how much I HATE the phrase "FML" that people are constantly putting in their facebook status. The people who put this up are usually teenagers, usually girls, but that is no excuse for stupidity. I mean, what's the worst that could possibly be going on in their life? An F on a test? Not being able to play in the big game? The boyfriend dumped them? Absolute worst, probably pregnancy, but even that can be dealt with.
Now, I'm not saying that people don't have crap that happens in their lives that just plain sucks. Hell, my dad died when I was a junior in high school. I get that. BUT, I guarantee that the people who do have actual life-changing things happen do NOT put up a facebook status of "FML".
Case in point: my sister-in-law. She had a stroke a month or so ago. Not once ever have I heard her say "fuck my life". EVER. She's happy to be alive. Yeah, life freaking sucks for her right now, nothing is normal and she's trying to make it be as normal as possible for her kids. Meanwhile, she can't work, can't go up and down stairs, she walks with a cane, she can't think of the right word for the simplest things, she has to re-learn how to do things like write the alphabet with her right hand, walk without a cane, move her fingers as she wants to and she can't remember what she told you five minutes ago. She's dealing with all this while trying to be a mother to an 11-year-old girl who just started middle school and a 7-year-old boy who is Dennis the Menace.
SO, until you can't freaking tie your shoes anymore, little girls, your life? Is NOT fucked.
END RANT.
***I apologize to any of you who actually use this phrase, but I just can't stand it...it gets under my skin SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad!***
2 comments:
I think it's all about perspective..... Had the sayinig been popular 5+ years ago, I probably would have been SCREAMING it from the top of my lungs when I went through all that shit with my ex. I felt like my life was ending....and in a way it did. It just so happens that I got a new beginning out of it, and in the grand scheme of things, it sure wasn't the worst that could have happened.....
I SO get this. I have people with multiple healthy children complaining about teething on FB and I'm like "teething? really?" I don't think I complained that much about, I don't know, brain surgery.
So, yeah, I hate that too.
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