The list is long. I began compiling it after reading an article in Real Simple magazine by Kristin VanOgtrop that caught my attention.
I agreed with her on most items that no longer appeal to me, and I even added a few. See if these resonate with you – that is, if you’re growing older. (And aren’t we all?)
Here goes:
• junk food – Oops this hasn’t made my list yet.
• show-offs, hotdoggers, and loud mouths
• movies with depressing endings
• mediocre books (If a book doesn’t grab my attention by page two it goes back to the library.)
• trying to turn my hair into something it’s not. (This has not made my list yet either – the number of bottles, tubes and jars in my shower are proof I haven’t accepted my hair in its natural state – whatever that is – and probably never will.)
• people who just want to talk about themselves
• darning socks (I’m still darning socks, as in “Where’s that darn sock,” I scream while folding the laundry.)
• liars
• big cities with bad architecture
• popular music (anything that has been produced since 1970)
• chain e-mails
• “fat free” anything
• reality shows
*reading about the plights of the “stars”
Can you add others?
Let me get this straight . . . .
We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care
plan we are forced to purchase and
fined if we don’t,
Which purportedly covers at least
ten million more people,
without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,
written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesn’t understand it,
passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but
exempted themselves from it,
and signed by a President who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who
didn’t pay his taxes,
for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any
benefits take effect,
by a government which has
already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,
all to be overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese,
and financed by a country that’s broke!!!!!
‘What the Hell could
possibly go wrong?’
I’d be laughing, if I weren’t crying.