When hard-work pays ...

All readers sick and tired of annoying blog-readers who complain about the contents of other peoples' blogs says 'Aye'.

Okay, I don't really care how many people respond with an 'Aye', because it was a rhetorical question - as are most questons posted on this blog and on others of a personal nature.

After years of blogging, I still fail to understand why there are some faggots out there who cannot grasp the concept of 'personal' blogging. I am not running a newspaper or a community website, that I need to be polictically correct and socially respnsible, you morons.

I am writing a personal blog. A diary of my thoughts, wishes and observation. This blog is about how I feel, how I think and how I am. You might find me pompous, arrogant, rude, proud, selfish and annoying, but then that is the way I am ... no one forces you to come read my blog. If you don't like what you read, go google Care Bears and read stuff more up your fuzzy alley.

This entry was brought on by one 'Chili' who commented on my last entry with these words:

i have always noticed how deeply u love 2 brag.whether it is about ur designer bag or ur limit or the cost of your car or your manicure.i do all of that and more but i dont feel the need 2 just go on blahblahblah on my blog about it!it just shows you are rather immature and it shows that u r nothing but a loser and now that you have some money in ur hands all u can do is brag. haha. pathetic.

Now Chili - hot-headed and apparently not very bright - is obviously one of the many clueless individuals when it comes to 'personal' blogs - and fails to see that it is my blog and my money and if I want to brag about my money on my blog, I will. Of course, comments are enabled on my blog, so Chili can comment whichever way Chili pleases. But if my blog gets Chili so hot and bothered, I wonder why Chili must come and visit?

Methinks Chili is perversely attracted to the fact that I am and can be everything that this Chili cannot. Methinks Chili is green. With envy.

Yes Chili, I have enough money to buy whatever I want and if you think that is 'shameless bragging' then so be it. I see no shame in writing about the fruits of my hard work. I see no shame in sharing the results of my efforts.

The fact that I have things that I brag about do not "show (I am) rather immature and it shows that (I am) nothing but a loser and now that (I) have some money in (my) hands all (i) can do is brag. haha. pathetic. " If anything, it does the opposite.

It shows that I am old enough and mature enough to have 'made it', and that I am strong enough to not be ambarrassed to admit that I am successful.

Success - and money - is not something to be ashamed of if you have worked hard to get it. 'Bragging' as you so call it - but which I see as a casual or nedded reference to something - is justified if you have earned it.

I am not bragging about driving a car daddy bought me, or a designer handbag I swiped the Hubby's credit card to get.

Pathetic, you called it?

I'll tell you what's pathetic.

Pathetic is two kinds of people:

1. Those who are complacent and lazy and never get anywhere in life, and then point fingers at those that work hard and win.

2. Those who work like dogs and for some reason are embarrased of their success ... and go on to hate those who are brave enough rejoice in their own success ... all because they themselves do not have the self-esteem to raise their heads high and say these simple words "I work hard and it works well for me".

That, my dear Chili, is what is pathetic.

Me? I am just simply saying those simple words you seem to not be able to.