NEWS FLASH: It's not all about you!!

And we are not competing for best/worst anything, so shut up already!

(Alternate title, “Shut up, you attention whore.”)

Why is it that some people (and you probably DON’T know who you are) have to make every situation about themselves? Anytime a person is telling a story, they have to tell one too, and shift the attention towards themselves? Every story they have is better (or worse, considering the circumstances) than the story that was being told by the other person. If the first person had the flu, the “one-upper” had pneumonia. If the first person’s baby learned to walk at 10 months old, the “one-upper’s” baby learned to walk at 9 ½ months. If the first person broke their foot, the “one-upper” broke their leg. I’m sure you know many people like this. I know I do, and truth be told, am getting sick of it. IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU!!

Now, there is a fine line between telling a related story that serves to support rather than one-up another person’s story. Telling those stories is fine in moderation. A quick blurb here and there to show the original speaker that you are relating to their story is good feedback. People like it when others relate to what they are saying. It makes them feel accepted and understood. But if you cut them off in order to tell them how easy they got off, or how what happened to them was nothing compared to what happened to you, STOP YOURSELF. Let someone else get some attention for a change.

This has been a public service announcement…..


Oh, and I read somewhere that people prefer blog posts with pictures, so while this is mostly unrelated, here’s a picture:

I suck as a blogger.....

I suck as a blogger. As much as I would love to write a witty, interesting post every few days, it's just not happening. I can never seem to come up with anything that I feel compelled to write about lately.

It's not there aren't interesting things going on in the world....

There's that beauty pageant contestant that says that her answer to a controversial question about gay marriage is what made her lose the crown, Um, maybe it's that you just weren't as pretty as the other girl, honey..... No, seriously, while I don't agree with her answer, I think that the question was meant to set up whoever answered it and Miss California just got to be the lucky girl.

There's also the funny story about the major league baseballs jerseys being misspelled. The "O" was left out of "Nationals". Um, yeah, I REALLY don't care about this one.

Or the story about how the Roman Catholic Church is mad at Ron Howard and Dan Brown. Howard is the director of the film adaptation of Brown's book Angels and Demons. They say that the previous movie made of one of Brown's books (The DaVinci Code, you may have heard of it...) depicted the church falsely. They are so mad, that they refused to let any Catholic churches in Rome be used for filming of the latest movie. Hello! The books are FICTION! It's not Opie Taylor's fault if some people can't tell the difference between FICTION and REALITY. (and who could be mad at Opie Taylor anyway.... (Oh wait. I guess I can't tell the difference either!)

Look. I guess I did have something to write about after all.

Lie to me....

Lie to me. Have you seen this new show? So far, I really like it. It's about this guy (and the other people who work for him) who is hired to tell if someone is lying. He can tell by the slightest facial expression or body language. I think it's fascinating! (mostly because I think 99% of people in the world are full of bull sh*t and I would love to be able to definitively prove it when they are trying to sell me a line of crap...)

Why do people lie anyway? In my opinion (and believe me I have MANY opinions and I am not afraid to share them), most people don't lie for any legitimate reason. They just can't stop themselves from exaggerating their stories. For some reason, they must think it sounds better to say they got a ticket for driving 75 mph in a 55 zone instead of telling the truth that they were going 62 mph. They say their child had a fever of 103 degrees instead of 102.4. Why not tell the truth? You still got a ticket. Your kid was sick. Why lie about it?

Now I can see lying for a couple of reasons:

1. To keep from hurting someones feelings. (What a beautiful baby!!)
2. To keep yourself or someone else out of trouble. (Officer, I had no idea my tags were expired.)

But why lie just for the hell of it? I had a friend in college (and high school) who would tell you the sky was green, just to lie about it. (Of course, she would lie now and say I wasn't talking about her...) I never could understand why. She was a smart, funny, talented young woman who had no reason to lie. I guess she felt like she just needed to embellish things to make them more interesting. Who knows? I know I sure don't.

Anyway, tell the truth, people!! I'm going nuts over here trying to use the new skills I am picking up on one of my new favorite shows to see if you're full of it or not......

~Ash