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Write about someone who is no longer a part of your life. Could be a love, a friend, a relative. Why aren\u2019t they a part of your life anymore?<\/em><\/p>\n

This might be one that’d be better for my wife to write about, considering all the drama that’s happened this week with her extended family.<\/p>\n

I’ve made nods towards this recently.<\/p>\n

There’s a group of people who don’t know how to deal with me because of my disease’s effects.\u00a0 I’m not up to do the sorts of things I used to do.\u00a0 Although not as fragile as it used to be, my financial standing doesn’t allow me to pick up the bill on almost everything.\u00a0 Maybe that makes them “users.”\u00a0 Maybe it means I was a sucker, spending money I shouldn’t have in exchange for attention\/affection.\u00a0 So those people have drifted away, but I can’t bring myself to really care.<\/p>\n

There’s never been an instance when I really wished I could call up $name for advice on how to deal with a challenge.\u00a0 Not that I really share things, even with those closest to me.\u00a0 I do miss having my dad around for some of those things;\u00a0 he was the one I went to on those.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I refrain from writing about something that didn’t go well…..<\/p>\n

So, there’s another group, those who’ve been taken with things I view negatively.\u00a0 In a lot of ways, and maybe this makes me a bigot, it usually revolves around religious adoption.\u00a0 Few, though, have actually adopted an internationally-recognized faith.\u00a0 More often, they’ve adopted, with religious fervor, crazy ideologies.<\/p>\n

Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama, Paul Krugman, Dave Ramsey, Alex Jones, to name a few.<\/p>\n

There’s no single way to live, and letting people choose different paths is\u00a0not a bad thing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t like someone doing\u00a0x<\/em>?\u00a0 Okay, fine.\u00a0 How long do you plan to lock them in cages for continuing to do that which you don’t like?<\/p>\n

That question is never popular.\u00a0 Even less popular when you dig down to the essence of a sanitized political argument.\u00a0 So, you go on MSNBC, and say that someone is guilty of treason.\u00a0 Translation:\u00a0 You want to see that someone\u00a0executed<\/em>.\u00a0 Proving an actual crime is less important than actually seeing someone with whom you disagree\u00a0murdered.<\/em><\/p>\n

So those folks steer away from me.\u00a0 Maybe I should be concerned about that, but I can’t bring myself to care;\u00a0 good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Write about someone who is no longer a part of your life. Could be a love, a friend, a relative. Why aren\u2019t they a part of your life anymore? This might be one that’d be better for my wife to write about, considering all the drama that’s happened this week with her extended family. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}