You May Be an Ass but I Still Like You

I am a hypocrite and so are you and I believe I can prove it. Before you read this I want you to take a few minutes to find a mirror and look at it. I’m not asking you to look at the surface reflection but try to see beneath the façade that the mercury can only show. When you have managed to do this I want you to consider if this person that you see is the person that all around you see as well. Will the lady you buy breakfast from give the same opinion as the guy who sits in the cubicle next to you? If you can answer this with a yes then you are in my opinion in what is becoming a minority on this little planet where undiagnosed schizophrenia is becoming the norm.

Sunday morning we wake up and head off to church. This is of course after taking a bath to wash the smell of the rum and pre-marital sex off us. While the pastor speaks we try to stay awake and focus as well as the hangover would let us. We then make our way home whilst singing along to Rick Dees and inserting the unedited lyrics of the songs. The same songs that encourage everything we just rebuked in church but that were making our previous night’s escapades all the more fun. Now everyone is not this extreme in their hypocrisy but it is a common enough occurrence.There is a cliché that goes I’d rather be friends with a thief than a liar and this is for a good reason I believe. If someone is a thief you know what they stand for and what to expect; with a liar you can never know what is true from what is false.

In this day and age the majority of humans are liars and much like how the taxi men in town switch accents on and off to attract tourist, we switch personalities on and off. As I type this I can hear someone in my background speaking of God’s will and his might and I’m stumped. This is someone who has shown us videos he took of women washing clothes naked in St. Vincent, someone who has been seen in night clubs repeatedly and someone who is an avid fan of Spartacus (which probably stands for everything unChristianly possible).

I’m not calling myself better than this person nor am I trying to Judge them for that’s the job of a higher power. What I’m disturbed about is how easily we all can be like that these days and yet still throw stones from the porches of our glasshouses. I am neither ignoring the fact that sometimes you must adjust your personality to suit certain settings and occasions. What I’m speaking about is being true to yourself and honest with all those around you. I may not personally believe in homosexuality but I would rather any person around me who is gay be open about it and not pretend to be in agreement with me when I make ungentlemanly comments about a lady and her leggings. I’d rather any friends of mine who may read my blogs come to me and say that I wrote nonsense than to encourage me just to be polite. I’d rather my government tells me I'm in for a rough time than to trick me and then hit me with a ton of new taxes.

Being true to you may scare people because we then worry about what others may think. To this in closing I will ask this question for you to consider: do you want friends who like you because of what you appear to be or do you want them to like you because of who you are? I can honestly say I know who most of my true friends are these days because they accept me for the opinionated, stubborn, asinine person I can be at times and I want to let them know I love them for accepting me.