How Real Are You ?

Is every­one around us fake and pho­ny? Putting up a front? Lying to themselves
and oth­ers? Is every­one real­ly rude,self- cen­tered, depressed, and just
down­right angry indi­vid­u­als? Even more impor­tant­ly… Am I?!!!??? For as long
as I could remem­ber these were the type of peo­ple I’d see and just emulated.
Thinking its ok to have an atti­tude, roll my eyes, and be sar­cas­tic because
some­one said “the wrong thing to me”, or some­thing I did­n’t want to hear (but
maybe need­ed to hear). I would think peo­ple who were “hap­py” all the time were
lying to them­selves or thought they were bet­ter than me ( since of course at the
time I thought no one was bet­ter than me)! I would say to myself, when are they
going to snap? When are they going to go off because I can’t wait to see it. I
always was excit­ed to see the dra­ma it excit­ed me, I was like a drug addict
look­ing for my next fix. Well did I ever get a rude awak­en­ing when these people
nev­er went off, nev­er got angry, nev­er gave an atti­tude. As I got old­er I
under­stood more and more the world does not and will nev­er revolve around me (
nor does the sun or moon!) Its called grow up and mature. Pray more complain
less is what I learned, which is those “hap­py” peo­ple are tru­ly hap­py and have
plen­ty of joy. It may be more work to be nicer to peo­ple and not give an
atti­tude, but it feels bet­ter because who real­ly wants to be rude.… I DON’T!

By: Astarr Mahogany.