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Can you say the same?
15 years ago
I've never smoked a cigarette or pot.
I've never taken a drug.
I've never had sex.
I've never even had my first, real kiss.
You may say I'm too careful, but I am damn proud of myself for being this patient for so long. How many of you will be able to look your future child in the eye and tell them what is right, without being a total hypocrite?
I have no religion telling me I can't. Nobody is stopping me from doing any of these things. Stop and think. You'll feel so much better with yourself...
It's not like I haven't been offered these things before either. I've been offered drugs, cigarettes, pot and even sex. Each time I turned them down, because I knew that one day I would find the right person for me.
I would find them and be able to tell them about my patience. I know that some people will look at me and think, "She's never lived" but there are many others that will respect what I have and have not done.
Those are the only people I would ever be involved with.
I've witnessed the failed marriages of my mother, failed relationships and the regrets that people felt after them. I learned from THEIR mistakes and I would much rather not make my own.
I understand that I can't influence people like I wish I could...I'm not a God. I've always had to be the responsible, mother-like figure in my life. And I treat my friends like children.
I shouldn't...and I'm sorry.
I've never taken a drug.
I've never had sex.
I've never even had my first, real kiss.
You may say I'm too careful, but I am damn proud of myself for being this patient for so long. How many of you will be able to look your future child in the eye and tell them what is right, without being a total hypocrite?
I have no religion telling me I can't. Nobody is stopping me from doing any of these things. Stop and think. You'll feel so much better with yourself...
It's not like I haven't been offered these things before either. I've been offered drugs, cigarettes, pot and even sex. Each time I turned them down, because I knew that one day I would find the right person for me.
I would find them and be able to tell them about my patience. I know that some people will look at me and think, "She's never lived" but there are many others that will respect what I have and have not done.
Those are the only people I would ever be involved with.
I've witnessed the failed marriages of my mother, failed relationships and the regrets that people felt after them. I learned from THEIR mistakes and I would much rather not make my own.
I understand that I can't influence people like I wish I could...I'm not a God. I've always had to be the responsible, mother-like figure in my life. And I treat my friends like children.
I shouldn't...and I'm sorry.
Hypocrisy would be saying "Don't do this, period, it's wrong" without admitting that you did it, or without denying that you were wrong for doing it. Or to tell someone not to do something, while you continue to do it. Like smokers who tell people not to smoke. Doing something, then realizing you were wrong, and changing your behaviors so you don't do it again is not hypocrisy. It's making a mistake or a bad decision, admitting it, correcting it, and moving on.
How many parents ride their kids to do well in school, even if they themselves may not have done well? Does that make them hypocrites? People make mistakes. We're imperfect. It's the ability to learn from those mistakes and change our behaviors that matters. The problem today is that people seem to think that it's either impossible to change, or that if someone does change, they're a poser, a fake. Somewhere along the line we seem to have lost grasp of the notion of personal improvement, and the idea that people can, and do, change.