Admit One

[failedALIAS]

And I just got over it like it was nothing. I didn't even cry. It kinda makes me feel like I'm a horrible person - but at the same time I'm glad about it ^^

You shouldn't feel like a horrible person, when in fact, you're one of the few who gets relationships! If I ever got married and then after a long/happy marriage I got divorced, instead of viewing it as a failure I would think of it as a success. We were happy for a number of years, then just moved apart and acted accordantly. Staying with someone you no longer love is the true failure.

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I'm going to admit several.

I often feel I have no sense of wonder, because when I was three and met "Santa" for the first time I asked him "Is that beard real or fake?" This was simply because I didn't find it realistic that Santa would come to our kindergarden out of the millions of others in the world. Also I noticed that many things about the myths didn't make sense. Even after that point I've continued to lead this type of life:

1) I'm an atheist.
2) I don't believe in "The One" or True Love.
3) I think that tyranny could work, provided we develop an unbiased, uncorrupt system of selecting who our supreme leader should be, and have them raised from infancy, brought up by the world's greatest minds and schooled in a variety of subjects. People are too stupid to have freedom.
4) Either #3 or we go with Marxist Communism.
5) William Shakespeare? Overrated.
6) Telling children that they're smart is the equivalent to telling them that there's this magical force that helps them with their schoolwork: they cease working hard so when they fail at something it means that *Poof* magic's gone.
7) Sentiments aren't going to get a child very far. If they get a D, telling them they did their best is fucking stupid. They failed and have to do better.
8) Obedience is a worthless set of guidelines. I'd encourage my child to take apart the TV, then challenge them to use the knowledge they gained from that to explain to me in detail how it worked. Then they put it back together.
9) They can't use excuses like "But learning Spanish is HARD!"
"Bullshit! You learned the English language just by listening to me and your mother fuck in the other room while you were in your crib. So, how do you say "Thanks for all the tuition, food and heating." in Spanish?"
10) I'm going to raise a traumatized, but genius child. Fact of life.