The Pep Talk You Wanted But Were Too Ashamed To Ask For, You're Welcome

You will never get what you want in life unless you ask for it. So what if, the last time you tried, you were mocked, betrayed, taken advantage of, and wholesomely trampled on? Does having endured all that make you weaker, or does it make you stronger than ever? At least, now you know that you are capable of being brave, and of taking big risks for the sake of minuscule rewards. So pick that book back up, and read; pick that pen/brush/whatever back up and create!

So you were called an attention seeker because you actively seek human contact; you were called desperate because you had too many friends, or unsocial because you had too few; you were called a pervert/slut because you had too many friends not of your own gender, or orthodox/closeted because you had none; you were called angry and crazy because you had causes you were passionate about; you were called unproductive because you liked to have fun. So what? Did the people who call you that ever live your life as wholly as you have? Did they feel the warmth of your friends, the fire of your passions, the happy tiredness of your feet, the midnight music of your dreams?

They did not; and hence, you are beautiful in a way that not many people other than you can see. Those who can, keep them close; those who can't, thank them for making you stronger; and, make peace with your anger, your hatred, your vengefulness. It does not mean giving in to them, but only to realize that they are normal emotions in your soft little heart that always does its best to defend itself -- and so it must.

So it must, because if you don't defend yourself, no one else will. If you don't love yourself, no one else will. So give yourself a hug and a pat on the back, because you deserve it. Cry on your own shoulder, and smile back at yourself in the mirror of your mind! You are human, you are beautiful, and this too shall pass. So stay blessed, and stay badass.

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Happy New Year.

You Will Be Taken Advantage Of, You're Welcome (Merry Christmas)

Best read after the original song or story.

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The Real Reindeer Story

Preface: human kids are weak,

Unprepared for morbid truth;

So they made this a carol

To motivate and sooth

All children who are bullied,

And it works like a charm;

And since Santa loves human kids

We're sure they're safe from harm.

Adults, on the other hand,

Are used to the gory,

So, for transparency's sake,

Here's the longer story.

When this story started,

Rudolph was really tiny

And folks began to notice

How his nose was red and shiny.

Keeping with societal rules,

Like everything unique,

Rudolph's red nose got him banned

From every deer-school clique.

So Rudolph ran to his Mum;

She said, holding him close:

"Rudolph, one day, I tell you,

They'll love you for your nose."

Strengthened by his Mother's words

Rudolph grew bigger, better;

Meanwhile, his big, shiny nose

Grew redder and redder.

When Rudolph was twenty-one

Santa came to say

"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

We're taking you away.

My scientist elves will work on you

And find the red-nose gene

And soon enough, noses like yours

Will become routine.

Until then, Rudolph, my son,

With your nose so bright

I'd like it if, on Christmas Eve,

You acted as my light;

We'll care for your parents

So you needn't worry."

The deer-school bully added,

"And you'd better hurry."

And so, to make a story short,

Trembling in fear and pain,

Rudolph's folks bid him goodbye

And never saw him again.

Now, hundreds of years thence,

When Santa flies his sleigh

A Red-Nosed Reindeer guides him

Up, up and away.

We're sure it can't be Rudolph

(No reindeer lives that long)

So we did some research

For purposes of this song;

The Head Elf only told us,

"All deer who you see leading

Are hundred percent Red-Nosed

Via selective breeding."
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You're Not Alone, All Plans Fail, You're Welcome

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Conflict

My heart was new and tender red

And the world left it alone.

My heart was set in hard concrete

And the world sent flowers, soft;

My heart was then encased in stone

And the world hurled all things nice.

My heart was set with spikes of steel

And the world let all things slide.

Then I set it at halfway point

And the world ran swiftly by.

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Your Daily Dose Of Reality, You're Welcome

Best read after the original (full version).

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Yours Celestially

Twinkle twinkle, little star...
...why'd you have to be so far,
Smiling down from a big blue dome
At a sobbing child in a broken home:

A parent ill, and another gone
To a place that no sun shines upon?
That shameful day, could not your light
Help the toddler in that fight

'Gainst the traveller in the dark
Huffing away at childhood's spark;
Or the woman, gagged and bound
And naked, on the roadside found?

In the dark blue sky you keep
While, through windows, perverts peep.
Poor men die as rich men kill;
You stay twinkling, distant still.

But not for long, for people wake
Soon they'll know how starlight's fake --
So twinkle, twinkle, selfish star!
Now the world knows what you are.
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