Hooked On Healing

All right. Which friend, relative, neighbor, or even business colleague have you tried to impress lately? Checking your “friends” WhatsApp status today? Did you try to flaunt your career standing, fashion sense, parenting skills, or level of education perhaps? Speaking of which, as a parent of a five-year-old, you know all the names of all of the dinosaurs but none of your co-workers? Lol. What’s that? You say you are impervious and immune to trying to dazzle, charm, or captivate others? Hmmmm. So you never once presented a slightly false impression or created an image you wanted someone to believe about you?

Ah, those cool words everyone seems to magically start using simultaneously. New words do pop up all the time. Sometimes they stay in the group where they originated, like a musical subculture; but then others manage to find their way into the “gen pop” – you know… the general population. So how is your vocabulary?

“Oh, grow up.” When was the last time someone said that to you, when you were doing something they apparently thought was childish? Speaking of which, do you remember the time we couldn’t wait to grow up? What were we thinking?

Oh, you just want everyone to be happy, sunny, and bright. And you will do whatever they ask of you to make sure that there’s a happy ending – for everyone but you. They must never think you’re selfish or thoughtless. Never. Yes, I know what it’s like to need to be needed, but do you always say “Yes” to doing that favor, even though it may be unreasonable, not to mention that you truly do not want to do it?

 How optimistic and upbeat are you? Do you think like a proton and stay positive? Oh, I have a PMA, too: a positive mental attitude. I am positive that I am mental, and have an attitude. Heh. You claim that wonderful and worthy things have happened in your life because of all of your positive thinking? Not so fast, sweet friends. I’ll wager that you took plenty of sound and secure actions along the way. You know what they say: No one ever drowned in sweat.

It’s the end of the day. You have a bunch of things to talk about, but no one to really talk to? Getting cute “good night” texts from no one. Sigh. They say: “You find love in every corner,” so you’re convinced that your life is a circle.