Listen to me
would you for once???
This is the
'Get Your Head Out of Your @$$'
speech,
the one I've gotten so many times.
Do you realize,
the potential you have?
You can make it,
and then,
you can sit at the table with any of them
and laugh at them in your own mind
when they start with thier gossip,
thier vain attempts to make themselve important.
you are important
don't you know that?
Get your education
it could be the most important thing you ever do.
Even if you never use it.
You can sit there
and know that while you are no better
than anyone,
you are smarter than those small minded buffons you grew up with.
most importantly
don't ever worry about
pissing people off
you are going to do it
no matter what
you can only please one person in your life
so that person better damn well be you.
Know no matter what,
I am proud of you
and I love you
and Always Will.

Dedicated to my Uncle and his version of this speech, and to Jess for reminding me of it every time I wanted to give up. And you know what every word of it is actually true! :)

01/10/2002

Posted on 01/10/2002
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