When I was little, I heard people insulting each other with the word gay.

[conuly]

Well, we all heard it, didn't we? I didn't get it, though. I thought that they meant "happy". I was *really* out of touch with mainstream society at that age, and read a lot of old books :) When I finally, finally figured out what they meant, I still didn't get it. I mean, why would anybody even care?

I still think that. And it irks me. I wish I could say I'm nice and tolerant and all, but that's just not true. I'm not nice, or tolerant, or open-minded, or any of it. I just don't care. Sure, I want you to be happy, in a vague sense, and if I know you I actually *do* want you to be happy - but I'm not being tolerant of you! I really don't care what you do! I don't care what you believe, either, so long as you aren't harming me, or unhappy with it. It'd be great to be able to talk about how wonderfully open-minded I am about people's beliefs, but I can't do that because I just don't care! I'm vaguely interested in religion, it's an off-and-on passion of mine (admittedly, most of this passion died when I realized that the Greek and Norse gods probably didn't exist....), but... yeah, not caring. So, I don't care who you fuck, and I don't care how you pray, and I don't especially care what you eat... I wish there was something I *did* care about, just so I could be tolerant.

*sighs*

*giggles*

Pretty silly rantling, huh? Lub ya all dearly. *hugs everyone and hands out kittens*

Comments

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

I just don't care.

If "ninety-nine percent of the art of helping lies in knowing what not to do" (as it does), then you're batting 990 by default.

More caring such as yours can only make the world...a much safer place!

;-)

[conuly]

You mean not caring.