The blame game

I often find it amusing and interesting to sit back and watch people as they go about their daily lives.  It is a great teacher of life..how not to act, react, deal with drama, etc.  What often confuses me and aggravates me to no end is the “it’s not my fault” people.   You know the ones..they are the ones that if something happens in their life it is because someone else did or did not do something that caused it. I have no patience for that kind of mentality.  It is self-serving in that victim kind of way and is nonproductive in that one has no clear agenda on how to achieve one’s goals without blaming others for not reaching them.  I am so against that kind of “poor me” mentality.  To me it’s just a waste of time and energy..probably why I have a running argument with friends about Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz(ok, those who know me well can stop shaking your heads and turn away cause ya’ll know what’s coming,lol)..Anyway..back to Dorothy…she is the type of character that makes one want to slap with all her whining and poor me, I’m so persecuted shit.  I know it’s for entertainment purposes, but work with me here…  She refused to take responsibility for letting her little dog run amok in the neighbor’s chickens and bit the neighbor  as well..so she runs away rather than face the music.  When she finds herself in a strange place..she whines, and collects 3 insipid losers who want to hold her hand and make it all better rather than telling her to suck it up cupcake…it’s called life, deal with it!  Then she allows herself to receive stolen property and wonders why someone would be highly pissed at the thieving of their inheritance and what is rightfully theirs..all because someone has weird notion of good/evil.  I always want to slap the saccharine out of that bitch Glinda who is truly the evil one here..I  mean, first she steals the slippers off a dead witch then gives them away without thought to family members who are understandably upset, and then sends the simpleton Dorothy off on a journey to nowhere because in the end, she always had the power to go home…WTF?!?!  Now granted, the victim and her group of loser friends truly have a right to be pissed at the master manipulator, but they brought a lot of things on themselves by not thinking things through and in truth life is like that ….there are people who manipulate the situations to fit their whims then wonder why people get upset about it.  But it all boils down to us actually.  We can play the victim and react..badly, and I have been guilty of that..or we can shake our heads, and consider the source and move on…That is where I am now…I can’t change things, no matter how much I would like to sometimes…and I cannot make people be anything other than who or what they are…so I’m changing the rules to the game.  No more blame laid at the door of others…whatever happens, it’s all on me..and I kind of like that..because it makes me think about things, and how to act instead of react…. And that makes me quite content today.

PEACE OUT