Rant, rant, rant...

Has anyone wondered what it would be like to sit and listen to a speech about everything you don't believe in?

You're sitting there, thinking it'll just be about antioxidants (?!) and then the guy who's talking spins off onto another almost unrelated topic. How you aren't happy if you're not a Christian. Ow. You're sitting there, trying not to let the shock or revultion that you're feeling register in your facial expressions as he talks about how taking some kind of pills cured his cancer.

This guy went on for about an hour on one of two topics: how God miraculously saved his life, and how, if you're not a Christian, you're not a happy person. First off, aparently God began this aformentioned miracle only AFTER he began taking some [not cheap] antioxidant pills. And he still chalks this "miracle" up to God. What a load; I'm sorry if that offends you, but it's exactly what I'm feeling right now. He told us about how taking whatever pills he wasn't selling [yeah, w/e] will make you live a longer life. Not let you, make you live a longer life. As if the only way to make your life longer is taking these pills. Don't get me wrong, I do think that taking a vitamin daily will boost your health by at least a little. But this guy had the nerve to start off this little 'chat' of his by saying that "I'm going to tell you right off the bat that I'm not here to sell anything to you..." and then mentioned somewhere near the middle [and end...repeatedly] "if you're interested in the product that I've been talking about, come see me or other-guy-who-was-there later tonight and we'll get you set up." They even brought some machine that can measure the antioxidants in your body by shining a light into your hand. Again I say...what a load. They asked us to fill in a sheet before we got 'tested,' and on it they asked things like "Are you a smoker?" and "How many servings of fruit do you eat in a day?" I'm pretty sure that was all that had to do with what result you got. And everyone who was there bought into everything he was saying. I honestly thought that if he said "And this isn't me saying this; it's the doctors and researchers at the American Medical Association saying it" one more time tonight, I would've snapped. Seriously, he said all the things that I quoted over and over and over and over, so much that I wanted nothing more than for my phone to ring so I could walk out. Well, that and I wanted to voluntarily give up my hearing and my sight for about an hour of my life; you have to know it's bad when I'd voluntarily give up the one thing that's most precious to me, my hearing.

So, I have to face some friends tomorrow/spend some time with some pretty dang amazing friends, and then begin the job hunt on Monday. I wish I lived in Calgary right now. So much it's not even funny. Calgary is the one chance I need to re-start my enire life and live it how I want to. Don't worry, I'm not planning on doing anything even remotely stupid, but I'm super pumped about just having this opportunity at all. And my mom supports me and my decisions, too. Yay!

Anyways, now that it's like 3am, and I've gone through every possible emotion a human can feel in the past hour. [Thanks again Eenie and Stephie] And now I'm exhausted.

~Blackbird