What Happened???

[LovelyLadyLux]

"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?"

I used to think I was just a regular person, but I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist.

I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a fascist.

I am heterosexual, which now makes me a homophobe.

I am mostly non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business.

I was christened by my parents (who were married, in a church and remained married until they died), which now labels me as an infidel.

I am older than 65 and retired, which makes me useless.

I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage which makes me a xenophobe.

I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

I (and most of the people I know), acquired a fair education without student loan debts and little or no debt at graduation, which makes me some kind of an odd underachiever.

I believe in the defence and protection of the homeland for and by all citizens and I honour those who served in the Armed Forces, which now makes me a right wing-militant.

Please help me come to terms with the new me… because I'm just not sure who the hell I am anymore!

I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through these seemingly abrupt, new found changes in my life and my thinking!

I just can't imagine or understand what's happened to me so quickly!

Funny - it’s all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years!

As if all this nonsense wasn’t enough to deal with; I’m not sure which restroom  to go into!
 

[Grandad]

Roll on senility then

[Mad Dilys]

May I ask LLL, have you really changed or do you believe that other people's opinion of you has changed?

If you have changed I'd be very surprised and I think it's important that those of us who are over "retirement" age should be comfortable in continuing to have confidence in their personal convictions, which have been developed over a lifetime of experience.

I don't really care how people judge me, that's up to them and I prefer to be true to myself. I found your list quite interesting as I hadn't realised how much I had changed my own opinions over the years.

I was born and brought up in rural England and pretty xenophobic when young, loathing the French in particular, though I've always had a lot of sympathy for people who have lost their home country to invaders who then insist that their way is the only way........... like forcing the Welsh to speak English for example. ( I'm happy to say that I regularly hear Welsh spoken where I now live and I can't understand a word of it - good for them, as I am an immigrant here.) I didn't like the French, Americans or Australians yet I now have good friends and relatives from all three countries.

I'm obviously a hypocrite as I became a guest in Egypt, but I married an Egyptian and when in Egypt I always wore a hijab and dressed modestly, as I am a Muslima anyway, but still "when in Rome....". That's why I get irritated by people in the UK who refer to white folks on one hand and Muslims on the other. I have Jewish friends who have met with absurd prejudice both from Arabs and Europeans. I know a Big Issue seller who is a Romanian and strongly Christian, we often discuss religion in a friendly way and find we have more in common than different. I have many Gay friends yet I'm not comfortable with the idea of same sex relationships which are fully sexual, not just loving and caring: but that's their life and problem not mine.

I'm older than 75 and I don't regard myself as retired, in fact I'm still actively looking for my next career challenge. I work because I enjoy it, I honestly have never ever been driven by the biggest pay packet and I love to acquire new skills.

I wanted to go to University, but my father died when I was 16 years old and my Mother bless her knew better than I and made me take a commercial course for which I've been very grateful in the long run. I've had a wide variety of jobs which have been very educational in themselves and I've thoroughly enjoyed.

I never accept media opinion at face value - it seldom has a grain of truth and reeks of manipulation. Once upon a time I really believed in Freedom of the Press in the UK, but not for the last 50 years from personal experience. The same with "Democracy" a wonderful idea, but not really workable in practice, because of the nature of so many humans who in one way or another are hypocrites at best or corrupt at worst.

The problem is that those who should be leaders don't want the job, and those that become leaders are morally unsuitable.

Christian or Muslims for example if they were true to their faith would never commit an act of war. Jesus said "turn the other cheek" and Mohamed (pbuh) said that killing and especially killing another Muslim was a grievous sin - yet Christians still go to war with Christians and Muslims go to war with Muslims and now even professed Buddhists are committing acts of murder and atrocity ............. and all because? In my opinion because "we" are human.

Phew rant over.