But you !
You know i don't go by a lot of golden rules, but I believe in one.
If you don't know who the outcast is in your family, you're it !
Think about it, you try to be a decent human being, you try to get along without denying who you really are, and are always prepared to find the middle ground. So ofcourse when you start looking for that one family member that doesn't belong, and you can't think of one single person, news is....you are the unwanted.
Now you know this bit of information I strongly suggest you hold your shoulders high and your chin up and be proud of the fact that you pissed off people so much so with your personal success with which they reflect themselves to, to have come to despise you enough to fade you out! I know how your reasoning will go, you're a humble person and you figure that whatever studies you did, they can do too. Or whatever job you landed, given the right studies they could too. However much weight you lost, they could too, whichever clothes you bought, they could too. The key to a happy life is to never give up bettering yourself in any field. If you want to learn, LEARN! If you want to lose weight, LOSE WEIGHT ! If you are unhappy with your job and you want a new one, GO FOR IT. But all of course with some sense in your head, moderation and not without taking care of your obligations. If you respect your own boundries due to the fact that you bought a house or a car, or are the sole provider for your family, you can still expand your horizon and better yourself.
So, you think, if I can, they can to! Right?
WRONG !
They won't, because they don't want to, they are perfectly happy with the lives they have, just as long as they don't encounter with anybody that has it better than they do. When they do come across someone that has it better than them (never mind the hard work they put into it) they will put that person under a magnifying glass and disect it bit by bit.....every figuratively peace presented as a poisseness lash of the tongue, one comment after the other as to WHY this person should NOT be intimidating to them at all even though it totally is. And why?
Because they feel insulted by the fact that once you had the same lifestyle as they have (probably growing up when lifestyle wasn't a personal choice) and at one point you decided for yourself, I want more. Now with this deciding in you want more, you didn't mean that whatever choices they make are beneath you, you are simply stating that you see it different. But that's not how they see it. They see it as a direct attack on the person they are and the life they live.
In the beginning you let yourself be dragged into one fight after another, and then in time you start accepting that its not worth it so you don't indulge them anymore. You try to be happy with the very simplicity we find in just loving the ones in your household, your husband, you children. Despite of believing in a creator, which I do, the life we got is still a gift and no matter the destination we are headed for we ought to be grateful for the here and now that we can create.
But they don't see it that way, you are the weird one, the crazy one, the "other" one and after a while you will notice that whenever the family speaks about "everybody" being together, it means everybody but YOU.
This is what my niece told me (don't worry, she's cool, she's an outcast like me) you shouldn't want to be associated with these people. And that is very true, why would you want to be part of anyone's lives that thrive under vanity, fake emotions......being friendly in the face and a bitch behind the back? Because that's also why, even if you wanted to, you couldn't fit in. You don't do fake.
That doesn't mean you're a mean bitch telling people off all the time, but you do call bullshit when you see it. And THAT is what sets you apart from them. You simply just don't do fake.
And hold on to that, it means that you'll end up having at least 1 person in your life, but that ONE person is TRUE. No gossiping behind your back, no judgment....just someone true and reliable....and if you're really lucky you'll have maybe 2 or 3 people like that in your life. That's a deal i'd take any day, because I rather have 3 real people in my life rather than 500 fake ones.
The only set back might be that you'll find that everybody's invited, except you.......
And with my luck.....I'll go insane, and forget the rationality of it all, and pine for their attention like puppy begging for a bone.
04-11-2014 om 20:35 geschreven door Insane.v. 
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