This is a post for posts sake, as I'm trying to commit to one post every day! Too busy today getting chewed out by irrational parents to write, people who can't seem to understand that their child's behaviour, and how it can affect their success, is the most important thing, and not whether or not they get on the honour roll. Good! They didn't make it! Maybe now they'll know life isn't a free ticket, and that disrespect, rudeness, and laziness won't get them very far. School of hard knocks, buddy! Bitter much? Oh yes...I just don't think I should have to go to work on an evening and be made to feel like crap because someone's child clowned around and got a "Needs Improvement" for behaviour. Is that too much to ask?
This generation of kids really does scare me (although some of them have scary parents too)...I realized on Remembrance Day that most of these kids have no relationship to veterans from WWI/WWII. I had a close relationship with my grandfathers, who shared stories with me of their experiences, and through them I am connected, and feel an obligation to uphold values that give me the life I live, and gratitude to them for giving me the life I live. For goodness' sake, I choke up at community Remembrance Day services, like this year, when I got all teary eyed as the mounties, and firefighters, and veterans, and all other uniformed people walked by in parade after the ceremony. These kids don't have this...their troubles are closer to home, many of them. Divorcing parents, crazy parents, no parents, parents themselves...but they also don't think beyond their own troubles. Many are too busy laughing at the students who are in cadets, and act as colour guards for the school ceremony, to even understand what they represent. This scares me.
Didn't get much writing done...I'd probably knock a character off or make a relationship go sour if I tried because I'm just annoyed! I don't think I should be responsible for anyone's life, even my character's (they're people in my head!), when I'm so fatalistic.
On a light note, tomorrow's Friday, and that means the beginning of the weekend, and that means I get to WRITE. Here's hoping I come up with lots of ideas!
Novel Word Count: approx 17,000 (I'm too tired to count)
1 comments:
I hear ya, as you know my book delves so deeply into WWII and I can't help but have tears in my eyes as I write about my characters and their experiences in the concentrations camps...I all but fall a part over Rememberance Day...these kids are just happy that they got a break in the middle of the week to...do whatever it is they do...(which is not missing or late homework to be handed in).
There has to be hope though, isn't there??
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