bieber, boston, and bitching

early monday morning i had thoughts running around in my head to write a piece about justin bieber in amsterdam. cuz over the weekend he visited anne frank's house and wrote in the ledger they keep something about him liking to think anne frank would've been a belieber. but my piece wasn't really gonna be about that. it was gonna be more about my reaction to the reactions i was coming across to the whole thing on the internet.

but then bombs went off at the finish line of the boston marathon. and then i didn't wanna write about that (or anything for that matter) anymore. shit just got really serious. and i had nothing to say on the matter. i hardly do when things get this serious. it sucks and it fills me with rage but i got no solutions. i look around and i see a world ready to explode. i hear a ticking in my head and i don't think i can do anything to stop it. i'm a pacifist who believes that total peace is impossible. that's a fucked up stance to have. so i wrote nothing.

my basic premise for the whole justin bieber thing was gonna be that all i saw were people who had nothing better going on then to post vacant commentary from their social networking soapboxes about something that probably got overblown. was he insensitive? i don't know. i can see how the act itself can be interpreted as such, but none of us can go in the dude's head and know for sure. he might've been filled to the brim with good intentions when he wrote that. and everyone was so quick to shit on him. 

and it sorta boggles my mind how deep some people go and get all serious about what justin bieber's (or any celebrity for that matter) doing. we don't really know who these people are. they're perfect strangers to us. go straighten out some shit in your own life before you join in on the mountain of criticism that gets heaped upon some of them.

also, he was in amsterdam. that's a city where pot and prostitution are legal. when i put it into perspective, if this is the worst story biebs can come back from amsterdam with, then maybe he's not doing so bad after all. but to each their own. i hear a lot of people love pot and prostitutes.

but now that's all passed and no one's really talking about it anymore and with good reason. what happened in boston made the whole bieber controversy suddenly not important. and that's partly because it was not important that whole time. we just didn't have anything else to bitch about. 

so i guess the point i'm trying to make here is the next time you find yourself bitching about a kardashian or you go on twitter only to find that everyone's ripping into the latest lindsay lohan mishap, show a little gratitude. if we ever are fortunate enough to find ourselves in a situation where the most important thing we have to complain about is some celebrity doing things we don't approve of, then shit must be going extremely well and maybe we should just shut the fuck up and enjoy the moment before the next tragedy hits.