And I didn't mean in a good way.
Seattle has many wonderful things to offer the human spirit. It's green and the weather is temperate. There are 3 professional sports teams here and access to the ocean with it's abundance of seafood for me to eat. There is fabulous shopping and whale watching and the city itself is totally walkable, which is wonderful. If you want to eat all the multiple grains of the world you have them all at your fingertips and people here actually use reusable shopping bags. And I have said time and time again that giving birth and being a mother in Seattle must be amazing because you have every sort of birthing program your heart could desire. Also, the mothers here wear WHATEVER they want - attractive or not. Awesome.
But...
It rains a lot in winter (which actually hasn't been that bad), people get mad if you don't use a reusable shopping bag (true story) and there are a lot of people who don't shave - male and female. It's a bit pricey to live here and lately people have been picking off our police force which is no bueno for anyone. And all the neighborhoods have pockets of good and bad which gets really confusing when looking for housing.
The last bit of that is why I think Seattle is making me a not so good person. We happen to live in a medium part. A cool neighborhood that is up and coming. The problem with that is we are between the up part and the coming part. We sort of live in the hood...sort of. And I find myself just judging every hoodlum that hangs out on our street corner. I have no hope for them. Not one part of me wants to help them in any way when I look into their vacant eyes. I just wish they would go away. I don't care where, just away from here.
I don't like feeling like that.
It's such a pessimistic view. I've never thought of myself that way. I'm a realist, but an optimistic one. I'm wondering if the way I feel is just a bi-product of living in a big city or if it really is just me.
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This is funny because I just had a conversation about the homeless in Paris. My friend was saying she thinks a lot of them have dogs because it makes people more inclined to give them money. I said, ew dogs are dirty, it makes me Less inclined. (So wrong of me to say right?) then she said, wait so you dont give money to people because they're dirty? You'd give money to Clean homeless, but not dirty ones? Then I realized how stupid I sounded and that wasn't really what I meant to say at all, i just meant to say dogs don't attract me in the least. BUT I totally know what you mean and still have time feeling charitable to people that I should be charitable toward. wahhh.
it's just you.
kidding. i feel that way about orem, for goodness' sake. (at least our part of orem.)
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