Teley
08-05-2010, 22:38
It all started long ago, in a town that none of you probably know. Nothing much happened - I was born. I don't know what predictions people made about me. That was a long time ago, in another dimension.
Then I was brought here. Nobody asked me, do you want to be taken away. I was brought here because the expectation was that here I will have a brighter future. I couldn't say anything against else, I couldn't disagree - because then I would be told to go back where I came from, that they're full. I just wanted my family, but I didn't have a say because they were the gratitude police. I was a smart student, and so people assumed that now I would have a bright future.
I used to always be really negative about single teenage mothers. Only a certain 'type' of girl got herself in that position, I am not joking that I used to believe this. I used to be pretty negative about single mothers, unless they were divorced. That would never happen to me. It only happened to certain people, people that weren't so smart, from a different lifestyle.
But I fell pregnant. And thank God I did - it was and is a positive thing. Even with the single bit chucked in with it. But it happened to me, too.
I'm writing a paper on the intervention right now. I read a bit about the report, and I have heard that it is really bad, what is occuring right now. And I couldn't agree more. I just let it be, let it happen. Until first there were rumours of income management, and now there are plans to put it in. I might just escape it.
But past experience has got me thinking. People ignored what was happening for so long, because it didn't touch them. Until suddenly, it does, and then it's too late, because there's other people like they were who turn their backs because they just don't know. Because they don't believe that anything of the sort happens to decent people, like "them". And I look at it now and I think, there but for the grace of God go I. There but for the grace of God go you. The predictions we place on people, on ourselves, are silly - why do we believe that certain things will never happen to us?
Sorry about my ramblings. It doesn't need a comment. I just felt like posting somewhere, even if it doesn't make sense.
Then I was brought here. Nobody asked me, do you want to be taken away. I was brought here because the expectation was that here I will have a brighter future. I couldn't say anything against else, I couldn't disagree - because then I would be told to go back where I came from, that they're full. I just wanted my family, but I didn't have a say because they were the gratitude police. I was a smart student, and so people assumed that now I would have a bright future.
I used to always be really negative about single teenage mothers. Only a certain 'type' of girl got herself in that position, I am not joking that I used to believe this. I used to be pretty negative about single mothers, unless they were divorced. That would never happen to me. It only happened to certain people, people that weren't so smart, from a different lifestyle.
But I fell pregnant. And thank God I did - it was and is a positive thing. Even with the single bit chucked in with it. But it happened to me, too.
I'm writing a paper on the intervention right now. I read a bit about the report, and I have heard that it is really bad, what is occuring right now. And I couldn't agree more. I just let it be, let it happen. Until first there were rumours of income management, and now there are plans to put it in. I might just escape it.
But past experience has got me thinking. People ignored what was happening for so long, because it didn't touch them. Until suddenly, it does, and then it's too late, because there's other people like they were who turn their backs because they just don't know. Because they don't believe that anything of the sort happens to decent people, like "them". And I look at it now and I think, there but for the grace of God go I. There but for the grace of God go you. The predictions we place on people, on ourselves, are silly - why do we believe that certain things will never happen to us?
Sorry about my ramblings. It doesn't need a comment. I just felt like posting somewhere, even if it doesn't make sense.