January Jones Images: Please Don't Call It 'Being A Survivor'!

I am usually a calm person, very tolerant and easy going, really. I try to look at both sides of the story, give people benefit of the doubt, forgive the first strike, and as they say, before passing a judgement I try to walk in your shoes!. But there are some things that rile me up pretty bad. Reality shows being one of them (but that story later!) Today what I am talking about is the free (and some what loose) use of the term "survivor" regarding 'celebrities-gone-bad-gone-good-again'. This term has been used in past for Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston (may they RIP) and even Kim Kardashian (SMH!). Newest case in point- Lindsay Lohan! On the Today Show, on Saturday Night Live and most other media outlets she is being touted as a 'survivor'/comeback kid and what not. Now don't get me worng - I am happy that Lindsay is pulling her act together and trying to focus on her career - I love a comeback story as much as the next Rocky-watching, Seabiscuit-reading, Erin Brockovich-loving girl, but when your own stupidity and wrong choices get you in trouble, getting out of it means that Darwin's theory is not perfect and sometimes not-the-fittest survive too! Lindsay had it all - a great career, love of the media and a lot of money, but she herself decided to make wrong choices and everything got spiraled down from there. She had many chances to prove that she is a responsible person, but decided to make the same mistakes again and again! If you ask a recent graduate buried under the student loan, carrying on his/her ambitions and dreams in the heart, or a single mom working two jobs - if they will take the 1/1000th of what Lindsay Lohan had - I am pretty sure they will hang on to it, make a life out of it, contribute to the society and be thankful to God for that one opportunity! My point is - life gives you $h!t. We all can look back and blame circumstances for our sitautions, but in the end, it is our decisions that bring on the consequences. If you act responsibly, you will not need to survive. So instead of crowning millionaire celebrities as 'survivors' we should probably save the word for people who really survive on sheer grit and talent!
PS. I wish Lindsay Lohan all the best and hoping she stays out of trouble!

PPS. And here I am, ready to 'survive' play date for my sweet girl (fortunately, afternoon tea-date for me with fellow Mom)