Theory on Life

I figured that since I wrote up my theory on sleeping, why not throw in another of Annika's Theories on Life? I think that life, in general, is not so bad. While that might seem obvious, a lot of us like to go on getting respect for living the lives that we do. My theory is that we all tacitly agree to pretend that life is worse than it is so that we can all pat each other on the backs. Now, do I not think there is poverty and pain on this planet? Of course there is, but I think there is also ridiculous wealth and prosperity as well. For people who have the privilege to live in the middle class sector of most countries, we have nothing to complain about.

I worked insane amounts of hours various summers to help pay for college. Most days, I would work a good fourteen hours a day. You know what? It wasn't that bad. I was the president of a sorority that was constantly getting in trouble and made me the spokesperson to people who were taping our phone conversations. Also, not actually that bad. I had a really lonely and depressing period of limbo before coming here to sunny Dunedin (you try telling friends and family that have real lives that you sleep on a couch and work in a bar -- but really, I am going to be doing something). Yeah, not that good, but not that bad. I had mono, not the really bad kind, but enough to miss a week of class. Not as bad as you'd think.

Granted, there are lots of people who suffer, etc, but I think the vast majority of us just like to hear a way to go for working insane amounts of hours. You want to hear that being sick must have sucked, that preparing for that meeting was probably awful. Truth is? We just want recognition. And that's Annika's Theory on Life.