Get your head out of your ass

I went somewhere and got pretty critical-- well, in the privacy of my own mind. I'm pretty sure no one noticed, except for me. I noticed the very thing I was abhorring was the very thing I struggle with at times-- pride. I hate seeing it in others because guess what? I've got plenty of it right here.

Pride makes men fall and rise and fall. It is a sick, weird, twisted cycle. Maybe it's different versions of it that are confusing not just me, but a whole generation of people. We love who we are, where we are from, our independence, our freedom, our own ideals and philosophies, and our very own, truly yours, selves.

We love sharing our wisdom and making a mark in the world... except for that part where we have made complete asses out of ourselves. We don't hear what everyone else hears when they listen, mainly because we don't listen to ourselves talk. Next time you hear someone talk and preach, and you just want to gag, remember that's you.

There is nothing further from the truth than your little condemning self looking back at you, except in the face of someone else. So, now you know! Next time when you abhor that conversation, and when you detest that attitude, take your finger and point it right back at yourself. Until you fix you, everyone will seem to be broken to you in EVERY way.

Don't worry though. It's not just you. Everyone of us is in the same boat, we're just so self-involved with our heads up in our asses that we haven't had a chance to look up and figure it out. Once you get your head out of that butt of yours, you "can see clearly now...."

Well, I have got to sleep. Goodnight. :)

Gossip

Women sit around and gossip, and that's the only time you see a woman laughing and being interested -- really! Is this normal? Is it okay to gossip? And if yes, then the line should be drawn where exactly? Does everyone who gossip also has nothing to do? Is that just a cliché or is there some truth to this saying?

I've been to house parties recently in which I gossiped about no one and just observed to see what would happen. Here's the thing though: even when you don't try to gossip, you end up doing the very act.

It starts out with "who was that girl, wearing those light blue shoes?" and ends with "did you see her butt creeping out of her mini skirt? I mean, who wears that?" And before you know it, you are a gossip. So, what about some answers, eh?

No, it's not okay to gossip. Yes, it's fine. I don't know where to draw the line really. I just know that if I talk about someone, and I'm guilty of that, I feel bad if I bash them. If I don't, I don't feel bad at all. I just feel bad that those people that hear my side of the story would think of me as something that I'm not. That's why I'm not a big fan of gossip.

But is it fun? When you don't know something that's going on in your friends' life and they never bring it up either, what are you left with? For me, it's not as simple as "who gives a crap?" It's more along the lines of "what kind of a friend doesn't tell me about her life?"

Gossip- it's everywhere, and among everyone. We shouldn't take everything seriously. It sure makes our lives more interesting even if it is only small talk. Now, is it only small talk?

 M.D.