I have not forgotten about the Little Red Riding Hood rewrite. If you've been anxiously awaiting that, I'm rolling it around in my head, but so far nothing concrete has come out of it.
How about, for no particular reason, I write 10 Things I'd Like To Say to 10 people without identifying who those people are? Sometimes that's entertaining. Other times it's just ... wtf.
1. Yes, I understand where you're coming from. I certainly would not feel particularly loved or appreciated if the person I was married to valued a bunch of random stray animals over me and my health. But then they have always been like that. In fact, a lot of people are, mostly women, which is where the whole cat-lady stereotype comes from. I don't know what to say about it, but I can see that it really hurts you and I think we all fully understand that. We try to say something and point out how it might be unfair, unreasonable and downright hurtful, but it's sort of like talking English to someone who only understands Korean. The best I can say is, protect your health and let the animals go wild. Whatever they destroy, just make sure it isn't you. Perhaps when the back yard is being flooded by a now-bitten off faucet and there is no easy way to turn it off then that person might decide that their own convenience of not having to walk very far isn't really worth the cost. Perhaps.
2. I think my purpose in your life, my role, however brief, may be ending. I mean, no regrets. You have been a great friend to me. But I think my purpose may now be fulfilled as you appear to be on your path to happiness with the person you were meant to be with. I wish you all the best. If anyone 'deserves' happiness I think you do. I hope you find it and it all goes your way. You are a truly great person.
3. Seriously, all our lives we have known each other. All our lives. And yet I mean no more to you than your car in the driveway or a stray cat wandering the neighborhood. And sometimes I wonder if anyone does. I mean, I know your family does, but is there no one else?
4. I don't know what you want from me.
5. So you're determined to win this race, eh? Even if we desperately need someone better, someone who is who they say they are and not just a poser who moves in whatever direction the wind blows? Well, here's hoping you find the courage and integrity to be someone better if you win this thing, because if you get in there and sell us all out it's the end of the line for the shining city on a hill.
6. There's no pot of gold at the end of my rainbow. Wait, that's not a rainbow. That's just a trail of colorful smoke coming from the burning remnants of all my hopes and dreams.
7. Why don't you just kill me and get it over with? Or is that too much trouble? You're obviously busy and don't have time for me except on the bad days.
8. Isn't it odd how the people I once held onto so tightly as best friends never cared a thing for me at all and yet now I find some of the people who passed me in the halls without knowing me are today better friends than any I ever had before? Or maybe it isn't odd at all. Maybe I'm just an idiot. I say maybe, but there's really no maybe about it.
9. Squirrel!
10. As far as I can tell you have a bright future ahead of you. If you can just get through all the frustration of being so tightly controlled, and it won't last forever, then I think you're going to have a very happy and promising life. I certainly hope that you do. Surely there is at least one of us who might be permitted to fly?
Yeah, well, that's the best I could do. So there it is, about as random as it gets.
10 comments:
It really pains me to see you hurting this badly, Steve.
I'm sorry.
Squirrel? :o/
Big hugs 'n squishes. Hope that 2012 is a much better year for you, friend.
xox
Sending bug hugs to you from Canada. Here's wishing 2012 is better.
xox
9. Moose!
For as long as I've been reading your blog, you've seemed to be very unhappy.
I hope you'll end up making decisions to be happier in love, friendships and life.
I hope 2012 is better to you.
When you peel all your layers off and stand there, a naked onion with nothing to hide, you expect the people you've exposed yourself to would do the same but it rarely happens that way. In fact if you can get to three I'd be envious. Hope this new year makes it not matter so much.
Ute, ever see the movie "Up" before? Its hard to explain "squirrel" if you haven't seen the movie. Thank you for the hugs and good wishes. Happy 2012!
Kristine, thank you for the big hugs and well wishes for 2012. I hope 2012 is better for us all. 2011 was sure rough.
LX, as soon as we capture the small mailman we will surely find the bird!
Senorita, yeah, my blog has transformed from a place to practice my writing to a place for me to bitch a lot. But maybe 2012 will be a better year and I can find my 'funny' again for awhile? I sure hope so.
WonderWoman, if I peeled all my layers off and stood their naked I suspect the only person who wouldn't run away or have me arrested would be my doctor. And that's just because it's their job. But they get paid well enough for that.
Amen to you finding your funny again soon. But everything in balance, so don't worry about doing the melancholy too, we'll still be here with you...
Trojan, I appreciate that. I think my funny is stressed and exhausted, which makes it hard to write. But I'm working on it.
Maybe it's me being a pervert but I watched that bikini backflip fail video thinking her top was going to pop off and I was sadly disappointed.
Fortunately I have memories of much younger days when a group of us from college went swimming out at the lake.
A mate and I were hanging out at the end of the old pier with his girlfriend and one of her girl friends when the girls decided they wanted to go skinny dipping.
They stripped off their cozzies under the water and tossed them up to my mate, then they sat there giggling on one of the sunken beams (it was an old pier in disrepair) with just their heads poking out of the water.
My mate and I chatted to them while they lounged around like that, and finally after about half an hour they asked for their cozzies back, because they wanted to cover up before getting out of the water.
My mate started laughing when I pointed out to the girls just how clear the water was, and they shrieked as they realized that for the past half hour they'd been sitting in front of us stark naked with everything on display.
Good times, good times :D
CapnJ, those do indeed sound like good times! I remember a time on a sailboat I tied a rope from to a sail to the bikini top of a beautiful girl sitting next to me. Then I began to crank the handle for the sail, not really knowing what it would do. I was mostly only kidding around. She giggled and placed her hands over her top just in case anything happened. Neither of us really knew what would happen. The handle I was turning ended up tightening the rope fairly rapidly and pulled her top right off - a happy accident! Lucky for me she thought it was funny.
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