some of you are really going to despise this entry because it sounds so... bad... but see if i care. okay, fine, i care, but i'm going to post anyway.

today i overheard an interesting conversation while i was at dinner (yes, i am a loser, i go out to restaurants all by myself since i have no friends).

there were two undergrad girls talking about many different topics. the first that i heard was about plans for spring break. one girl was telling the other about all the islands of hawaii she has been to several times, and what she liked and disliked about each one. then she started talking about how she is trying to organize something at her dad's beach house in florida. i guess you can assume that she has wealthy parents and considers it a natural part of her life.

but what really struck me was how i could relate - but in a different way. it's no secret to anyone who reads this blog that i grew up well off. i mean, all of you did - especially the WWP folk. what was funny was that none of us really showed it growing up. we didn't have our many houses in exotic locations, didn't really wear the trendiest clothes, and didn't really brag about our parents' cars... well most of us didn't.

i guess what i am trying to say is that i wonder if my parents brainwashed me to not act like some spoiled brat or it was just the town we lived in, 'being rich' wasn't anything special. i'd like to think that it was how my parents raised me - because i honestly did not think we were well off at all until i came college and had friends that grew up with a lower-class household income.

so if i ever have kids, and if i happen to be doing well financially, i think i want to live simply just so my kids don't grow up like the spoiled brat at the restaurant today.

if i don't have kids... well... that's a whole different story.






(sidenote: the other thing that was funny about their conversation:
girl 1: have you ever heard of sandra day o'connor?
girl 2: um.... no.... i don't think so...
girl 1: oh, she's some political leader or something like that.
girl 2: i've heard of sinead o'connor though...
girl 1: who? what?
girl 2: sinead... sinead o'connor. she's this really weird singer who has a shaved head and ripped a picture of the pope on TV.
girl 1: SHAVED HEAD?!?!?! HOW GAY!!! HAHAHA

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