I got up rather early for me, this morning, about 8:30. That’s early because of going to bed at 3:00, but still…
Anyway, got up, got breakfast ready, then computer time for email, and beginning-of-day stuff. While I was going through email, I saw one of those ads about seeing pictures of all the stars and their children taken at the same age. It is basically to show how much they look alike. And, they do, for the most part. What was, at first, annoying, then, infuriating, was the person assigned to write the captions to all the pictures. I think it is so cool to see the resemblances between parents and children, especially if I haven’t seen or, perhaps, don’t know the children. That is what I wanted to see and hear about. Yes, I wanted to know if they followed in their parent’s footsteps. Yes, I wanted to know how they were doing. What I didn’t need was a caption-by-cation talk about how “we hope so-and-so got a good inheritance”, “so-and-so doesn’t need a good inheritance”, and so on and so on ad adnauseum (yeah, that may not be right, but you know what it means).
It’s as if not a single actor or actress today would think of doing anything but living off of Mom or Dad’s money. I know there are a few…mention those. But to keep harping on the financial independence so much made me so upset, I quit looking at the pictures and stopped to write this post. I mean, really, kids are not truly that bad. Yes, there are some (read that as “a lot”), however, many many kids in their 20s and 30s do work and work hard. To have to keep saying that “so-and-so certainly does or doesn’t need the money” only tells me that the caption writer did no research, had no time to write, did not care about the subject. All of these are good reasons not to publish such stuff until it is done right.
Maybe I am just flipping out, maybe I am just tired, but it seems to me that there is more to the stories if people would just take some time (something not prone to do in today’s world) and study their jobs at hand.
*The “” were mine for emphasis, not to be construed as a direct quote.
Namaste,
Scott
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