I have a pet peeve, actually I have many, but I’m only going
to talk about one today. It is sugary
sweet, dripping with honey, fake people.
You know the ones…. their smile is plastered on, and every other word is
“wonderful” or “wonderfully” as they go out of their way to tell you about how
perfect every element of their life is. They
unnerve me. It takes all of my strength
to restrain myself from slapping them. Don’t
get me wrong, I like happy people and I like positive people. I am certainly grateful for those moments in
my life when I have been down in the dumps and a friend has pointed out the
silver lining to my crisis. I like
smiling and love laughing and there is no better feeling of elation than
sharing the excitement of life with others.
BUT… there is a big difference between genuine happiness and the overly
sugary façade of fake fulfillment. When
people are over-the-top it makes me think they are merely using words to compensate
for the unhappiness and un-fulfillment from which they are suffering. It’s the same principal as the ever-popular
joke about the man with the small penis who drives the fancy sports car.
Overly compensating for something is often obvious to
outsiders. I wish these people would
realize that happiness shines from the inside out and can be seen and felt
without a word. I wish they could see
that fulfillment illumes the face and can be transmitted without an utterance. Most of all, I wish these people would learn
that it’s okay not to be the perfect, perky Pollyanna all the time. It’s okay to have down days, sour hours and
moments when you feel like you’re barely hanging on. It’s okay to fail, fall down and make a few
faux pas. It’s life and it’s real and
you can be too. ~
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