Every family needs a loser. How else are we to gauge our progress in the world, if not by comparison to another product of our same bloodline in order to determine that I'm better than everyone else because my house has an attic, and no one else's does?
Rapunzel will be calling me any moment now saying, "You'd better not be referring to OUR family, young lady," which will balance out the fact that my children, the brats, address me as "old lady".
But it's true. Why is it that families don't get along? Because every member is secretly terrified, "What if the family loser is ME?" and they have to reveal to the rest of the clan the REAL loser before they themselves are cast in the role.
Seriously, you know there's a Renner out there going, "That Jeremy! He needs to get a real job. All he ever does is make a brizillion dollars pretending to be someone he's not!"
Face it. At some point in your life, you're going to be the family loser, even if only for a moment. My advice to you: embrace it! Bask in it. BE the loser you were born to be! Revel in the glory of being the one everybody's talking about. Just don't get too cocky, because you're not actually THAT special. It happens to everyone.
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