Tuesday, 03 November 2009
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Dont Take Things for Granted
So lately there have been many disturbing articles about our fellow "humans", although I can hardly consider them human.
One story is about a 15-year-old girl who got gang raped in Richmond, CA. Apparently she was raped by 6 guys after a homecoming dance. Most of them didn't even attend her school. There were several witnesses who instead of calling the police, used their camera phones to record what was happening. Faculty were sent home, or left on their own accord because the school didn't want to pay them "overtime". There was also campus security on the premises which didn't know what was going on. This raping incident lasted for two hours while the father was in his car waiting for his daughter to pick her up.
Second story. A couple in Knoxville, TN were on a way to a friend's party. They never made it. The boyfriend's body was found bound and burned. Incidentally he was raped by 4 individuals in front of his girlfriend, then castrated, then shot before he was set on fire. His girlfriend had to watch all of this while it was happening. After the boyfriend was set on fire, they went after the girlfriend, severely raping her. They poured bleach down her throat, and dumped her in a trash can barely alive, where she passed away from suffocation.
How does this tie in with Datingish?? I see a lot of posts about personal problems. And I in no way think they are trivial posts, but I thought situations like these need to be brought to people's attention...because although you might be feeling like some of your relationships are on the rocks right now, or you're sad because your boyfriend doesn't call you back, or perhaps you like someone and don't have the guts to say anything to them and are kicking yourself for not making the attempt...just keep in mind that things could be a lot worse. Cherish who you have, and the time you have with them. Try not to nitpick on the little things, because you end up missing the good things. A lot of people come on here for advice, which is one of the greatest things that Xanga offers, but I think people often tend to forget that life has so much more to offer.
This post was not meant to offend anyone in anyway. I just wanted to help people realize there are worst things out there, and to be safe with all these psycho's out there.
Do you feel like you take things for granted with your S.O. when you shouldnt? Would you be willing to let the little things that bother you go to see a better ending?
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wow..i totally agree
people are messed up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
I don't know why they pull that shit. I hate how people stand around doing nothing like in the 15 year old's gang rape. I hate how semi-wealthy men are able to abuse, rape, and murder girls who are barely day old babies or 13-year-olds.Â
What can you do? Hardly anything. Unless you're rich.
This definitely puts things in perspective.
good post.
"I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have." - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
No matter what, we all don't realize what we have until it's gone and it's a fact of life. We can all say "oh next time that I'm really upset about how much my life sucks, I'm just going to think about the rape victims and the kids starving in third world countries" but I guarantee we will fail and that we will become self absorbed in our problems, even if just for a few minutes, it still will exist.
Though this is a legitimate point, it's impossible to actually put into practice.
lol yeah, perspective is pretty far skewed on both datingish and lovelyish ...
@here_without_you41@xanga - How very depressing..
this post makes me again realize the sad sad reality we have in life. but lately, i realized how happy i was with my man. though i don't know if we'll ever get married (i'm a very big realistic pessimist- contradictory? talk to me in person one day and you'll understand and be recruited yourself) and as a girl, i know that ihave the upper hand pushing his buttons. so i decided that i have to be nicer and take more patience with things. girls have periods and yes, pmsing times (maybe all the time) and the man usually needs to have more patience. i try not to take life for granted. everything i have in life is something i'm not even worthy of. be thankful for what you have. because there are a loooot of people way worse off than we are. i went through a lot the past few years. i saw my best friend die slowly to a brain tumor. i found out my boyfriend had commited suicide because his heart was broken by his father and by his life and i wasnt there for him. i've seen too much but every experience makes me more grateful to be alive.
people should appreciate how good their lives really are-- or find good in them. Lots of bad things happen to people, just gotta learn to deal and enjoy the little and finite time we have here on Earth.
Nice post! Well, not nice, but good work.
KUDOS.
i would say great post.. but the stories laced in the plot werent too lovely. D:
It shouldn't take stories like this to make you thankful for what you have in life. :/
That sounds like the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome case, really horrific. The mainstream media pretty much avoided reporting that like the plague.
Take nothing for granted, and put everything into perspective, that's good advise..
Some people are so freaking messed up.
kinda scary ><!
I don't take what I have for granted. My friends daughter gave the best advice - Don't stress about the little things - it's just too silly. It made me laugh (considering she's two years old).
Thank you.
Wow, a refreshing post; different from the norm.
You have a very good point.
humans in third world countries are starving to death and here we are leisurely browsing sites on the internet.
Wow, this was an amazing post. I do sometimes feel like I take things for granted yes. I do make an effort not to though. I've managed not to do this most of the time. I'm usualy very careful about this.
well for the richmond story it hits home, i live about 30min away and well she wasnt waiting for her dad like most of the news say. she was walking home till she saw someone she knew and he asked her if she wanted to drink and she said yeah so she went to the back of the school. and found that there were other people there but she started drinking and well she got wasted and then she was messing around with the guy she knew and then the othen other people started to join.. and so on. i mean, if her dad was really waiting outside for her. wouldnt he have gone looking for her? its still not right what happend to her. and it just makes me wonder what people are actually capable of doing! i mean the kids that actually rapped her were like from ages 14-19. they are soooo young.
richmond is a fucked up neighborhood. you hear shotting and cop chasing someone almost everynight. hopefully what happend to that girl makes the city realize that they need make a change since the whole world is watching them now.
i probably took this in a different direction,... sorry.
@here_without_you41@xanga - Yeah we're pretty selfish aren't we :/. There is always guilt when reading these kind of posts like "What about others?" but it's so hard to keep that feeling there and actually change ourselves.
Thanks, I had barely heard about the Richmond high school raping. I didn't realize how bad it was. I heard it was during the middle of the dance and thought that it was just high school kids doing retarded things or exaggerating. I can't imagine how the father feels, let alone the daughter being raped for 2 hours with people just watching, recording and probably giggling not even trying to do anything. The other one seems like there must be a lot to the story, raping a guy, bounding him then burning him alive in front of his gf before raping her then killing her too...some serious craziness must have been going on. Or they just have incredibly bad luck. Pretty sickening.
I know I definitely took things for granted, nitpicked, and got taken for granted and was nitpicked on during my last relationship. If I could go back, or better yet for my future one I've already been planning on doing my best to not do those things.
what kind of sex do nine out of ten people love?
gang rape.
welcome to the internets.