The school was run like a prison camp I thought and now I am not so sure about that but I still find it strange that she would use that quote all the time. It is so true, though ! She was absolutely right! Take John Edwards,who in my mind wins , 'Slime Ball of the year'( although his mistress and even wife are right up too,) who claimed the power of running for President made him feel like a Demi-God - like he could do anything- and he lost touch with reality. Unfortunately, you can't believe a word the guy says, considering he renewed his marital vows for political gain when he AND his wife knew he was having an affair and the woman was having his child. And that's why Elizabeth has lost all credibility in my opinion. SHE wanted the power so much she went along with the entire farce. And R-whoever-mistress? She knew exactly what she was doing, getting pregnant with a rich and famous political figure in order to taken care of for life. Nice crowd.
And Tiger's excuse was the same -- all that power all that fame got to his head. He could win slime-ball of the year, but I think Edwards deserves it because Americans want to believe that they can trust their leaders and that they will be told the truth. So technically our political leaders who we have entrusted to run our country could be held at a higher standard. This doesn't seem to be working out to well among the Powers-That-Be-In-DC but hopefully they'll land back on the ground when we vote them out.
I just think money, power, fame, private jets, would be fun. For say, a week. As long as there were no reporters. That's the huge problem for all of these celebrities (and I think, unfortunately, we tend to vote in our political leaders based on a kind of celebrity aura instead of , say, experience): they have these pesky people following them around and telling the world what they are up to! I would hate that! Even though I am doing nothing wrong, STILL, you must really love to have all the perks if you lose your privacy. I think its an addiction, so sometimes they just take ridiculous chances, because they think they can. And you have to wonder if any of these people who "act out" are sorry they did or just really sorry they got caught? I think it is the second for sure. So the only thing the little people , like us, the American people, can do if we feel that someone is exerting too much influence in a certain area, like the future of our country, for example, is take the power back. Because absolute power corrupts absolutely. I'd have my headmistress verify this, but she's dead. Many students of that school can sleep knowing this. Although I still think she's watching.
And that's my last point. Since we don't know what happens to people's souls when they die, although many people of all types of religions and cultures believe they know, which is nice as long as they don't try to push their religious beliefs on other people and cause terrible wars where thousands of more people are killed (but that is a topic for another day_using religion to justify murder). In truth, no one alive really knows for certain what happens when we die until it happens, and then it's too late to tell the living people. Some people make tons of money claiming they know for sure - like the guy -- oh no! It's another John Edwards I think! He talks to these dead people all the time on television and maybe he really is, or maybe he's just like the money/power/celebrity status of it all. do. He's very convincing, although I don't like the idea of my father watching over me, or anyone else for that matter, and I was hoping that when you die you would have better things to do.
Personally I find it unnerving. It is much more intrusive than reporters, even reporters from The National Inquirer. We all have loved people who died and we miss them terribly but do we want them watching our every move?(Try not to think of this when you are having sex) No! And actually maybe Tiger SHOULD get 'Simeball-of-the year'! He has that commercial with his dead father lecturing him!? "What were you thinking, son?" None of us want that.
My father swore that when he died he would come back as something to tell us what was going on, after death, and my mother is convinced he did just that when a humming bird buzzed around the property and landed on her shoulder last year when she was in the pool with my brother. Thank God she had a witness, or I would think she had gone totally insane but my brother thought is was Dad as well, inspecting all the flowers and trees he had planted so meticulously while we lounged by the pool feeling guilty that Dad had decided in the middle of lunch when the whole family finally gathered from across the country to have a reunion and we are sitting outside by the pool having just made this scrumptious meal and had barely said hello to each other when my father (which was so typical of him) got up, went to the garage, retrieved a ladder and at 80 years old wobbled up the ladder to prune some trees before he started cleaning out garbage cans. This is when you have to ignore him. So we did. But it made everyone uneasy.
Anyway,this humming bird (who supposedly was absolutely gorgeous with vibrant colors of purple and green and he was extremely kind and interested in everything going on) flew over and entered the garage to look over all his gadgets, (assuming the humming bird was my father and I am not saying he was because I wasn't there, which must have crushed him, since he loved me,so much, and is one of the reasons I have difficulties falling for this entire theory, because if it was Dad we would of come and found me, I would think.) Anyway, assuming it was Dad: he did go into the the garage and flitted around his huge robot that scares me to pieces every time I even go IN the garage, its so huge. I think it is a man lurking there who wants to kill me. But it is actually his robot caddie that was going to carry his golf clubs around for him, if he hadn't crashed into the tennis house and died at the very beginning of the summer on his way to sneak out and play golf. So the robot just stands there. SO, according to my brother who got out of the pool and followed the humming bird around, the he humming bird actually went into the garage and flitted around the robot along with his other gadgets. And if you read my novel which is fiction based on facts, "MY HUSBAND RAN OFF WITH THE NANNY AND GOD DO I MISS HER" you would know my father was a fanatic over gadgets and that my mother believed people's souls came back in different shapes and forms. So Mom is all excited its nearly summer because she thinks if she just waits by the pool long enough Dad will come by and say hi. "He may not be a humming bird this time" she announces, like its some kind of warning. "Just as long as he isn't a snake. He would never do that. Do you suppose he could be a plant?" And I have no power or control over how she wants to think, and the good thing is no one has power or control over how you have to think, which brings me back to the point about America -- maybe the Presidency has gotten to Obama's head (he named his dog after himself)- but if he laughs or belittles anyone in this country for their views? Its just not right. Ina democracy, the people decide. Its not the same as boarding school.
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