Anti-social- or sticking to standards?

People...sometimes I am just sick and tired of people!
People take and use and before they say thank you, or show any appreciation, they start to complain, and ONLY when you stop all your giving do they decide maybe they should have shown some gratitude.

And then the people who ALWAYS have to have drama in their lives! Something is always wrong, or something is always really exciting or new. Life is an emotional rollercoaster, and everyone who is near them is swept up in the motion.

And the people of no substance, who try to become whoever it is they think YOU want them to be, and are constantly fluctuating. Like building a house on a foundation of silt.

And the judgy people, who will act like a friend to everybody, but in truth are friendless. Miserable people who are so unhappy that they have to talk bad about others and do what then can to try to bring them down to their level.

I'm told I have anti-social tendencies because I generally don't date, party, and go out and socialize a lot. Why would I? How many real, true, honest , like-minded people are out there for me to bump into? If they were truly that much like me...they wouldn't be "out there" either!

What happened to the day when it was okay for a woman to be intelligent, confident, educated, and (gasp) CHOOSE TO BE A FULL TIME MOTHER? Why is the most important job in the world looked down upon? Why do people feel like "you could be doing so much more!" Please, tell me, what in the hell could possibly be more important than raising my children and making sure that they are healthy, happy and safe, and raised with the Christian values that I embrace and find important...the same values that the contemporary education system is squeezing out of the schools, and the government is squeezing out of the citizens? I am raising intelligent, independent, moral individuals who will be taught the REAL world history, not the PC one showing up in today's text books. And anyone who dare say my daughter is not socialized because she is home schooled, has never met my daughter! She knows more about science, history, the Bible (again, history) math...and LEARNING than the children who are stuck in a desk 8-9 hours a day and TOLD what to learn. Her mind is creative and questioning...she is always asking me questions I don't know the answers to, and we learn together. Every single day of her life is learning. But I digress...

My choosing not to subject myself to people of morals I don't agree with, or who live in a way I do not find is a good situation for me or my children does not make me anti-social, it makes me a mother.

I am NOT perfect, but I do try not to judge other people, especially if I don't know them. People may (and have) think that I am judging them...when in reality, my life is too busy to even give them a passing thought. I refuse to spend my energy and time and rent out space in my head to people who are not worthy of it!

And one thing that I have really really noticed, is that the older I have become (not that I am old) but the less I give a damned about what people think about me. My parents are dead, I have one grandparent alive, some siblings, some cousins, some aunts and uncles...none of which are involved in my life save for the few who keep tabs through facebook, and my friends and my children. Pretty much the ONLY "person" I care to impress is my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. My true friends will take me as I am, with all my warts and wrinkles, grey hairs, saggy boobs, spreading butt, grumpy attitude...and know that under that all, I will love them and be loyal to them, because once you are a close friend of mine, you really really have to do me wrong to get off that short list. And my kids...sorry, you are stuck with me for life.

As for my social life, or lack-there-of, I leave that up to God. When He decides if and when it is time for me to have a partner (in crime  in my life, that man will come along, but until then, I am focusing on becoming the best ME I can be, and the best mommy I can be for my kids, be cause they deserve it!

And people who have nothing better to do than to gossip about me and my family, to judge us, and throw us under the bus and put whatever road block they can in our life, are welcome to-because it reflects more upon their character than it does upon mine. Not saying it doesn't hurt. I am human, I do have feelings, hence the sick of people thing.

As the late Rodney King said, "Can't we all just get along?"

And Kelli Kontos- you may have to msg me about how to do the blog thing, so I don't have to write novels as status updates!