"I just want someone to be MEAN to me," Laurie exclaims about a hundred times a day. You see an eternal victim always has to have a reason to be "the victim" to someone that gives a shit. I personally don't.
Hate is an awful feeling that most people get to when they care about something deeply and someone or something comes along and has the exact opposite effect that you believe in. You see the one thing that Laurie doesn't understand is that I don't like her enough to hate her. I don't have that feeling inside me. Mostly I think that anyone that wastes their time hating Laurie is doing her the favor of allowing her to feel victimized. I don't like her at all. Therefore hating her is not really an option for me. I think she's a ridiculously sick and enabled person that nobody wanted to deal with. In essence, nobody really liked her enough to give two cents worth of time to her. So she got worse and worse trying to show all of you that you will care about her even if it is to hate her. Not me though.
I figure if I can not hate her, then most of you can too. It really is up to you though. Certainly Jonathan has a right to hate both Laurie and Brian and I would never intend to speak for him. She's done some pretty awful and unthinkable things to him and his family. Mine too. Maybe it's just that I don't know all of the horrible things that she is really involved with in my life that keeps me from feeling this way about her. She keeps wanting me to say something about her father whom I have never met. I wouldn't even if I did. She's just dying for a reason for someone to do something to make her a victim. I would caution everyone about feeding in to her lurid hatred of everyone and everything. She obviously is antisocial and has a real problem with people that care about each other; nobody cares about her.
I won't enable her feelings of hate because I know what she will do with them. I think she is a sad commentary on society in general. That anyone has allowed her to go this long without a full mental evaluation and arrest is sickening. There are hundreds of criminals in jail that haven't done a billionth of harm that she's done...it's just one big cluster fuck of apathy after another. I think that Palm Springs has failed to recognize that mental illness is at the heart of Laurie's biggest problems.
