Post for my mom

I just watched an interview with someone called 'The Ice Man' on PBS.
The Ice Man killed people for fun.

The psychologist who conducted the interview seemed to think that it was due to unresolved feelings of hostility he had directed towards his father.

The Ice Man killed so may people that the Mafia finally contacted him and hired him as a hit man.

He made a lot of money, and had an ice cream business that he used as his cover, or something like that.

Anyway, the Ice Man was a real bad ass. And he wasn't in any gang.

And he didn't brag

He told of his different killings with a sober, stone like expression.

He was considered DEEPLY disturbed by the psychologist, with many personality disorders and unresolved issues from childhood.

Ever since I posted to my blog about how my mom thinks she's a gangster, she won't stop IMing me to inform me of her criminal past.

Look, if you're a real criminal you don't need to list your exploits.

And being a criminal does NOT make you cool.

It makes you a criminal.

Nothing makes you cool.

You can be a damn dork and be in a gang.

Nothing can make you cool or legitimate or worth loving. You are who you are, and you should embrace and accept that fact.

People are 'cool' when they are who they are and they are happy. No amount of criminal activities will make you 'cool'.

Even if you were a criminal, or are a criminal, it doesn't really matter.

It's what's on the inside that counts.

The Ice Man wasn't 'cool' because he killed all those people and put them in his freezer.

He just wasn't.

Plus, now he has to live in prison—which certainly is NOT cool.

Being in a gang does not make you cool.

Nothing can make you cool.

Wearing the right jeans, buying the right things, having the right job. . . . None of these things make you cool.

Likening yourself, loving yourself, accepting yourself, and then getting on with it and living a nice life will make you cool.

Being yourself and not caring what other people think of you makes you cool.