Hunting

I cannot like hunting.  You cannot convince me in ANY way that hunting is a ’sport’.  Hunting can be a professional job.  Yes.  I understand that.  Some times due to humans interference and putting animals in camps animal numbers need to be reduced.  Don’t see why the average pen pusher should see himself as a hunter once a year and go do this.  There’s professional hunters who can do that.  It’s like someone doing his own income tax return once and saying he’s a tax consultant. 

Yesterday a business man (note - not a hunter) was ‘attacked’ as the newspapers says by a leopard.  Now let’s put this into perspective.  The leopard had been killing some farm animals and clearly this is a problem.  The farmer and his friend decided to go looking for this leopard and kill it.  They found it, shot it and walked up to the leopard.  As they got close enough the leopard jumped up and attacked them.  The first shot didn’t kill it.  They shot again and still he was not dead.  He did do some serious harm to both of them before he died though.

Do I feel sorry for them?  No.  Again, they aren’t hunters.  Get a professional hunter.  Just cause you ride your car at ridiculous speeds, it doesn’t make you a Formula 1 racer. You are also not a professional hunter because you own a gun.

 

A whore in the bedroom

Isn’t that how the saying goes?

Men want the woman they marry to be a chef in the kitchen, a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom.

WTG on putting stress on a woman.  Throw in the perfect mom, good salary earner, being thin and we are headed straight to Prozac. 

It’s no wonder so many women feel as though they are just not coping.  Look at that.  When must we make time for ourselves?  When we go grocery shopping alone?  Gym to be thin for the husband and the rest of the judging world?   The 2.3 minutes we get to bath alone before someone forgets that closed doors are meant for privacy?

I wonder if men even realizes this?  I wonder if they know how much they expect of us?

 

I love you

People often end a phone call with “I love you”.   Not “Good bye”  But “Good bye.  I love you”

Now while that is really nice and at least the other person does know that you love him, I personally don’t like it.  Unless you meanit.  I don’t want it said because you are accustomed to do so.  I want you to say it when you mean it.

I also don’t want to feel obligated to answer with “I love you”.  Why not just “thank you” and then say “I love you” when you really mean it?

I tell my boys that I love them every day.  I feel it is very important for people to hear that often.  I don’t say it when I drop them off at school though, as a part of the greeting.  “Enjoy your day.  I love you!”.  I think it looses it’s meaning.  The real depth of the meaning.

I want my boys (and those I love) to know that when I say it, it comes from my heart.  That I thought about saying it and not just saying it because.

Yes, say it often but mean it. Every time.  Think about it when you say it.  Don’t let it become part of a greeting and loose it’s impact and meaning. 

 

Turn around and walk the other way

It is said that someone only treats you in a certain manner you allow them too.

Well …. in a way I agree but in another I don’t.  What if you are in a relationship and no matter what you do or say, that person still treats you as (s)he pleases.  What if your words and concerns are thrown back at you as though you are in a empty room.  Talking to yourself.

There is no way to get that person to treat you in any other manner, except to turn around and walk away.  What if you can’t walk away though. 

I suppose that does mean that you are being treated like that cause you allow him / her to…