I don't know why the people get so offended when you call an ugly baby ugly. It is not even their kid and they start defending the obviously unattractive baby's better features i.e. it looks better when it is sleeping, it is cuter with clothes, and my favorite, it will grow out of it.
Well of course it will grow out of being an ugly baby and grow into being an ugly toddler and then a ugly child and so on until the adjective ugly will be so obvious that people won't even need to mention it. And when that ugly baby is an ugly adult it will probably have ugly babies that it and all the people around it will call cute.
But they are lying- the baby will be ugly. But by lying they are missing the point; it is ok for the baby to be ugly. Let's admit it: most babies are rather ugly.
But they are also beautiful in the symbolism they stand for: new beginnings, clean slates, brighter tomorrows. Plus they have that great new baby smell which even trumps new car smell.
Yes it is ok to allow some ugly into our lives. Some ugly even makes our lives a little better and a little more interesting. Besides, most babies, and most ugly, really do grow out of that weird bug-eye, sunburned look and into semi-normal and occasionally beautiful look.
That is what being unemployed is like: it is an ugly squinty-eyed, cone-head, sticky-out ears job hunt that you know is going to turn into a 40-hour-a-week, health insurance and 401K full-time job and maybe, just maybe, eventually that better-than-disney-land, it doesn't even feel like work, who needs to retire when you have this job, kind of a job.
But for now let's just call a spade a spade: being unemployed is an ugly baby.
[p.s. thank god i am not Oprah or Ellen or any other personality so important they only need one name because i would get truck loads of hate mail for this. Seriously people why can't we just love our ugly babies?)
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