One thing that didn't bother me right at first but bothers the bejeebers out of me now is an attention seeker. Someone trying to draw people's attention to them because of our situation when they have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
People who had never even met Ariana, or met her one or two times, but never held her or played with her, people who hadn't even talked to us while she was alive, who are now soooo "broken up" that she's gone.
Guess what? I don't believe you. You didn't know her. You barely have taken time to know us. And now you want to use her death to get people to feel sorry for you.
You stink. You trivialize our loss and you trivialize the losses of others who have gone before us. I understand how sad it is when you hear of a tragedy like this, and ready empathy is an asset, not a deficit of feeling. But when you USE it to get other people to feel sorry for you, you show a disconnect and you show an utter disregard for the people who are truly struggling every day, sometimes just to get out of bed.
Ariana lit up the world; she brightened every heart and every room she entered. It's understandable that people are sad that she's gone. But using her death as a way to garner attention for yourself is shallow, despicable, and cruel to the rest of us who can barely function anymore. And you know what? Everyone can see through you. Everyone knows. So stop pretending. If you're struggling with something, you're struggling with something and you deserve support for it. But don't draw in a child's death just so that people feel more sorry for you and think that you're sooo strong. Because if you were part of this daily struggle, you'd realize...you're not strong. No one is strong in the face of the death of a child. You do what you have to do, but you're not strong.
/endrant
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