"I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do"

Savage Garden - Affirmation <-- song, click to play

I just felt those words resonate with me. I'm watching this House episode where this over protective mother won't let the doctors treat her son because she's a stubborn, tough old broad. I started to think about how (loving) parents...don't always do what's best. Because they love, because they care, they can be irrational. Their judgment can be flawed because they're too emotionally invested. But...they still do what they believe is best for their children.

Parents don't get the credit they deserve from any of you (yes, I'm talking to -you-). I'm guilty as well. I'm short with my parents (or maybe I'm short BECAUSE of my parents - ba dum dum ching!), I lose my temper easily. I don't talk to them often. They don't call anymore because when they did, I'd be "too busy" to talk to them...but I'd just be lying cuz I'd be in the middle of some show and it was more important. I don't call them because I'm independent, I don't call them just like I don't really call anyone. I blocked them on MSN because I used to write profanity in my MSN status and I didn't want them knowing their son swore...I always turned profanity off around them. Like those words didn't exist.

Wow, I sound like such an awful son don't I? Which...might just be the truth.

Anyways, I guess I could unblock them now, my MSN status remains unchanged...but then they might come across my blog. I've made a number of references towards them...never anything bad but...would I be embarrassed if they read this blog? If they found out some of the frakked up things about me? Maybe....Even this post might shatter how they see me.

I'm getting a bit side-tracked...I want to get back to my original point of this post.

I said something today in front of my co-workers...
"Stupid people should not have children". I believe I incorrectly used the word "stupid"...but the message I wanted to convey is that...while it's everyone's right to have children, I personally don't think it's always a good idea.

Regarding abortion, I'm very much pro-choice. I don't believe children should be born into this world if their parents aren't ready to have them. Or if the child was the result of one stupid, drunken night. Or if the child was born into a family with not enough financial support. I'm going to be honest - regarding any life, I don't think love is enough. A child should be raised with responsible, reasonably intelligent parents.

I want to clear this up before I go further: I'm not going to go into the ethics of abortion and how it's ending a life and every life is precious. Going back to what I said in previous blog posts, I don't believe life is precious. Life can be created quite easily. It just takes some alcohol and poor judgment, something the human race has an abundance of. That's a tad cynical but the point is that I don't see life itself as precious. But that's just me. Create it. End it. We might as well be Gods in our own way.

Again, I'm getting side tracked. To continue what I was saying before...

A child should be raised with responsible, reasonably intelligent parents. They should have money to support the child and family. They should be mature, they should be loving, they should be this, they should be that. As children, we probably saw our parents as Gods. Seriously, they were the higher power. They fed us, they bathed us, controlled us, disciplined us, they were the shining example of what we should be. That is...until we got a little older and realized how flawed they are. How...similar they are to just about every other person you've ever met. How they have strengths. How they have weaknesses. How they weren't Gods. They are just....human....like everyone else. But they saw themselves as Gods, molding life in their image. Trying to create the best possible offspring. They might have succeeded. They might have failed. But they did the best job they knew how to do.

And on that note, you should call your parents. Just to say hi. Because...they'll love it. And it's so easy for you. Now, you might do that. You might not. And despite all I've written, I probably won't. Because the important things get left unsaid. And I've always been a terribad son. And I'll probably, despite my best efforts, be a terribad father. Actually, I don't believe that at all.

This post...is probably the most accurate post of how my mind works and how I think about things. When I walk to work, I start thinking of something, but it snowballs into this and that, leading to whatever topic tickles my interest. This might be one of my most all over the place posts...and that's how I think. Up here *points to head*, I'm a mess. But you already know that :)