First, I saw the movie Juno. Then, yesterday Jamie Lynn announced she's pregnant.
In both the girls are sixteen. I'm sixteen. Something about it was bothering me but I was too busy dealing with all of us leaving next week to figure it out. But now I've got it - they're the opposite extremes. Both girls got pregnant and one is really smart and one is really stupid.
What I don't understand is, how can two situations be so different, and I can't relate at all to either one? With Juno, nobody talks like that in real life. We throw in smart things here and there, but Juno was talking like she was in the Gilmore Girls or something.
Also, I'm so over everybody acting like every single kid is all off the beaten path, like that's the only way to be cool. It's overdone.
How old is Britney? Like 24 or something, right? How is it that Jamie Lynn doesn't look at her sister's life and make sure to go in the opposite direction? Isn't that the whole point of having an older sister? To watch what they do and not make their mistakes?
I've heard some people say they feel bad for Britney, but I don't. She has every single opportunity in life and one by one she's thrown every single one of them away. And if she were honestly too stupid to like actually know what to do (show up in court on time, don't drive), she has enough money to hire somebody smart who could manage her life for her. Hell, she could have hired me!
The Juno movie was kind of funny. I liked it - you should see it. And I really respected that it didn't give the happy ending of having the adoptive parents get back together at the end. Just the talking bothered me. I liked Michael Cera's awkwardness. That felt the most real.
I feel doomed to get pregnant if I have sex. I want to ask Jamie Lynn and Juno (even though she's not real) what happened. I mean obviously, but what went wrong that they got pregnant? What did they use that didn't work? Really, totally doomed.
2 comments:
i guess getting pregnant doesn't really have anything to do with being smart or stupid. it's probably easier to get pregnant when you're dumb, but smart people get knocked up too if they're not careful. people who have had luck on their side all their life also often think they will be lucky just one more time. okay, that's not very smart, i know. but it happens to smart people too. i guess there are situations where our brains just refuse to work properly.
but nobody is "doomed" to get pregnant if they have sex. at a time when i really couldn't, under any circumstances, have afforded to get pregnant - when i was too young, not finished with my education, not earning my own money - i took the pill, which was the safest bet, if not the healthiest. i heard they got much better by now.
later, when an accidental pregnancy wouldn't have screwed up my life that dramatically, i relied on condoms. works for fifteen years now, no pregnancies so far. i think you said you have the book "our bodies, our lives", i remember that gave a pretty good picture of all the possibilities of contraception. i think it's mostly just a question of thinking about contraception before starting to have sex. if you only start thinking about it while you're having sex you probably won't get thinking very far.
bah, long silly monologue. just consider all your options and make sure to be safe. you're a very smart girl. i don't think you would let anything stupid happen.
My oldest son was conceived while I was taking the pill. I was 23 at the time and married so we didn't totally freak out but it does happen. While we were teenagers and before we got married, I was on the pill and we used condoms.
It happens to smart people too but there is a lot that you can do to protect yourself. And it's not a bad thing to wait.
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