Things you just can't control.

[enzilewulf]

Well finally midterms are over for election season but with a heavy blow to my county.. there was a issue for our school that didn't pass now all honors, AP, and extra curricular activities have been raised or cut. And there will only be 7 periods opposed to 9. Well i'm all honors and I am of coarse pissed, but not that it wasn't passed. I understand that people are fucked with the current economy state and I respect their decisions but here is where I get pissed. A man who moved here last year is a land lord in our county.. he doesn't live here himself, but he didn't want the property tax's raised on his land so he made a website (I still don't know the address) against issue 3 for our schools and he had major influence according to my teachers (yet they are teachers so of coarse they are pissed as well). I am mad that I couldn't really have much influence and that now it will be way harder to get into college. So here is my question, Has there been a time where you were effected by something you couldn't control?

 

[maddawg IAJI]

I sometimes wish I was born smarter then I actually am, then I could actually make a doomsday plan that would work.

Side-Note: For anyone who has a similar plan, no, radioactive waste does not give Gerbils super-powers. It gives them cancer. Trust me, I found out the hard way. I had to drive to New Jersey before I found a pet cemetery that would take radioactive gerbil corpses.

 

[Dango]

I'm in a sorta similar situation (as in it also has to do with school). My school is making all of it's standardized tests much easier and much shorter to make students get higher schools thus making our school look better, and although this might sound great, in reality it's horrible. It used to be that for tests at the end of Junior year (aka 3rd year), we would have a 6 hour test with 4 essays, now we have a test made up of several multiple choice questions and one paragraph. Thus completely screwing us over and making us completely unprepared for college level writing. Not to mention the fact that everyone doing better on the tests will make it harder to get accepted into a college in the first place.

 

[manic_depressive13]

My raging hormones.

Seriously though, most things we can't control, so I get affected by things I can't control almost constantly.

 

[Yureina]

Sometimes. Not often.

Most of the time I either make the situation something that I can accept or I force it to be what I want. For the most part, this tends to work for me.

 

[Direwolf750]

flow of time, age, when I actually need sleep, how much I need sleep, other people's thoughts, my own thoughts, the weather...the list goes on and on.

 

[badgersprite]

My health?

Actually, yes, recently, I was effectively given little choice other than to take a semester off university after my grandmother fell ill. I'm her only grandchild and both my parents are busy, so my grandmother falling ill has actually had a really strong impact on my family. Literally everything has been rearranged.

I don't want to whine, but let's just say it's complicated. Ultimately, it's for the best, though. I was going to change one of my degrees anyway, and I decided to put off my law subjects until later on after I've finished my Arts degree rather than doing my two degrees concurrently.

 

[assassinslover]

All the time. There's a few things going on right now (I'm not looking for pity, or whining, just stating facts):

1. My step-mom has cancer and the chemo's not working.
2. Unrequited love.
3. And of course, the whole gay marriage issue.