Well, here's where both you and I get a chance to speak out, say anything,
I'll be writing about today's issues and other stuff. This will be updated every month (at least) so be sure to check it out every now and then. I sure hope you'll be able to relate to what I'll be saying 'cause if not...that's not my problem.
The hardest thing in the world is to get along with one other person, 'cause they're not you. It's basic. People will disappoint you all the time. Expect it. Realize that people are different and not everybody is gonna think like you. Some people will just knock you out with their ridiculousness, but that's them, you know. That's not you.
I sometimes think, in a perfect world, if everyone was me, I wouldn't have to work so hard to get my point across, to be understood, to be left alone. I wouldn't have to deal with someone treating me like hell, or disregarding what I know, or coming into the room acting like God, because, honey, when you're meeting me, you're meeting God. And there can't be two Gods. I wouldn't have to make my relationships work, because they would just be with another me. I already know me, I can deal with me, so there'd never be a problem.
Then again, it could get incredibly dull--a world filled with only me. There'd be no surprises. I'm friendly, funny and outrageous, but only in relation to everyone else. Would I be interesting to myself, multiplied? I don't think so. I'd run out of things to say before too long. I'd have nothing to be pissed off about, and I couldn't piss anyone else off either. That's the key to our relationships anyway, isn't it, that we're all a little different? We don't look for someone just like us. We want to be pushed, challenged, taken in new directions. There are people out there who have ideas that are not yours that sort of stop you in your tracks and get you thinking in new ways. It's a healthy thing. It's a good thing. It's essential.
When it's just you, you never have to live up to your own expectations. What the hell for? It's just you right? When it's just you, you never have to put yourself out there or take chances. When you think about it, as I for some reason have, you realize that it could never be just you, cloned, a million times over. It wouldn't be a world filled with Rochelles, all thinking the same things, all at the same time. There'd be a me in a clean mode, and another me in a sloppy mode, so there's already tension. There'd be a carefree me, and a pissy me; a liberal me and a conservative me; a rich me and a poor me. For every crossroads in my life, for every decision I've made, there'd be a Rochelle who went in this direction and a Rochelle who went in that direction, and then those Rochelles would splinter off, and then those other Rochelles too, and it'd be one giant commercial. We'd be all over the damn planet, and I would never be able to keep track of who the true Rochelle really was, and what she stood for in the first place.
So this way is better, I guess. Until I come up with something else, this is the way to go. You can all stay put for the next while, and bounce off me and give me crap to think about, and laugh about, and care about. Just don't piss me off any more that you have to.