Sermon #113
Okay--this sermon is off the usual topic, but I've got to talk about it anyway.
Can we talk about phonies? About people who pretend they're your best friend--no, they ARE your best friend--until somebody better comes along?
People climbing their way up the social ladder are just as bad as people climbing their way up the corporate one. Moving from one clique to another, checking out the people on the next rung, working their way up like freaking caterpillars until one day--poof!--they leave one rung for good, on to bigger and better things. Then they get rejected in the new clique, of course, and come slithering back to their friends on the lower rung. And you're supposed to sit there like some dope guarding seats at a concert, never realizing your friends found a better section and have left you behind.
Well, I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of welcoming the same old people back into the fold. Hey, once you make the choice to move on--move on! Don't come back when your new friends leave, don't come back when somebody breaks up with you, don't come back when you want to feel like yourself again 'cause you're tired of spending all that energy trying to act like somebody you're not and you just want to be accepted by people who always liked the real you.
Tired of keeping up the front of being some witty, gorgeous, happy, considerate person you're not? Tired of waiting for your "new" friends to appreciate your inner self? Well, too bad. Take two aspirin and DON'T CALL ME IN THE MORNING.
From "The Gospel According to Larry" by Janet Tashjian