Appreciate me goddamit, or is it spoiled brat syndrome?
Monday May 22, 2006

I have been feeling really frustrated lately, and I’m trying to work out whether or not my feelings are valid.

I’ve been feeling a little under appreciated lately at home, but I’m not sure if this feeling is due to lack of appreciation, or my brattish need to be acknowledged.

I suck =( I think I’m over-sensitive.

This weekend was interesting. On Saturday my Dad came over to the unit to install some light fittings – currently we have ceilings but no lights – and Vincent and I went over the check out how the bathroom renovations were coming along.

We were kind of pissed off to see that the bathroom people had just moved all of the rubble out of the bathroom and into the middle of the living/dining room. Lucky we didn’t want to keep the carpet!

But otherwise it’s looking quite good. The tiles we picked are this creamy/brown colour and once the bathroom is finished it will look gorgeous (I think anyway).

Last night on TV was the “exclusive” interview of Brant Webb and Todd Russell, the two miners who were trapped in the gold mine at Beaconsfield in Tasmania (link). Not meaning to sound cynical, but I’m over it.

They survived a pretty horrible ordeal, but it doesn’t mean that we should all automatically make heroes out of them.

Edit: That sounded uneccessarily harsh… what I mean to say is that now I feel like the media swarm is cheapening the issue, and the stories are all about ratings and money as opposed to the real ordeal, as opposed to mining safety, or as opposed to honouring the other miner that was killed. That’s simply not something that I can respect.

 

  1. 22.05.06 - Lissi - #

    I hadn’t even heard about the miners until I read the article you linked. I would rather see someone like them being interviewed for surviving then hearing about someone like Paris Hilton going shopping for the 340th millionth time. I don’t necessarily consider them heros, but what they went through wasn’t exactly something to shake a stick at.

  2. 23.05.06 - Marz - #

    I heard bout those miners too, and I was amazed at how they survived as well. But I guess in one side they kinda wanna shy from the attention (isn’t being trapped bad enough for them? Shouldn’t they have time to recover from it instead of being put in front of shining cameras and things?) but who am I to know? Or maybe the media just wants some filler.

    I think I sound harsher than you. o_O;;

  3. 26.05.06 - Natalie - #

    I think it is natural to feel under appreciated at times. I think we all forget to let others know how important they are and how much we appreciate them, so I am sure that is what has happened with you. :) That sucks about leaving the title piece in the hall.

  4. 29.05.06 - Kathleen - #

    I haven’t heard about them.
    hope your bathroom turns out alright ;)

  5. 31.05.06 - Noha - #

    Yea, I feel over sensetive too, wish I was an iceberg, I’d take many things that look horrible currently.

    Hope you good luck in dealing with stuff, and be cool, nothing stays the same forever.

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