"Pity Party of One?" Your table is ready.

So not every blog can be funny.  SO....today, I kinda feel like it's 1988...and someone says, "God?"  Who said it? H E L L O....Madonna...who else?  Say what you want...love HER, always have, always will.  In 1988 she came out with "Like a Prayer" and everyone got their panties all up in an uproar.  Yeah, it was controversial, it was sacrilegious, but just like Nia Vardalos with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" (see yesterday's blog)....artists take creative liberty and go WAY overboard (although Nia was conservative with Tarpon Springs...again, see yesterday's blog) to prove a simple point.  I swear I don't have A.D.D., although it would appear that I cannot stay on a single train of thought if my life depended on it.  So today was like 1988, for me, when Madonna starts her blasphemy and says, "God?" (she didn't mean anything bad by it... she was just trying to be dramatic...please...you know you've been there....case in point...some certain unidentified sexually ambiguous reader who told me.... I FORBID YOU TO POST ABOUT ME OR MY FAMILY....blah, blah, blah).  Sometimes I'm...just like...what do I have to do to cut a break?  I really do try to do good things.  I help people when I can.  I try to make it to church every Sunday (not a good track record during the Summer months)....and I try to keep a positive outlook on life and boost other people to help them feel like they are making a difference (sometimes it's a bit of a stretch...well, a down right lie...but if you're doing it to make someone feel better about themselves...who cares....it's a good thing).  So when I have a day like today..nothing really bad happened, but I just decided to have a little pity party....party of one.  I mean, come on...I have been working at my new job for just over a year now and NO SALES.  What's up?  My boss keeps saying that it's a 12 - 18 month sales cycle, but come on...I can't be the one to change that?  I can't be a superstar?  Sometimes you just want to be a superstar...sometimes you just want someone to notice that you're trying to make a difference...even if it's not financially related or not job specific...but just to notice that you're trying!  Now don't get me wrong...these new parents of this generation praising their kids makes me sick.  Case in point...."OH GOOD you did poo poo in the potty...yay!!!"  Come on people...big f-ing deal.  I really don't know too many adults that don't poo poo in the potty...what's the big rush?  OR how about..you finished all of your dinner...GOOD BOY!!!  ...and we wonder why we have so many Fat F*cks running around?  Why do you have to finish?  What happens if you don't?  If you're Greek and you don't finish it is a personal vendetta against your Mother or Grandmother.  You do it on purpose to kill them.   How many times did you hear, "...there are starving people in the world..."  granted, you may have heard it from me, but it's ignorant.  If they're starving..they need to: a. get to a place with food OR b. stop reproducing and there may be enough food to go around.  or someone says "..well if they're starving, send them the food I didn't finish..."  Really?  Your unfinished chili cheeseburger from Scotty P's...yeah it would kill some African Refugee.  WOW, I'm really going to start taking medication for this A.D.D.   ...back to my point.  Sometimes you just want a break.  If you talk to some people who think that they are having a hard time, you may notice that they are suddenly at church all the time.  It's kind of a natural - knee jerk - reaction.  God is good, God is great, GOD CAN FIX THIS!!!  But, like my Mom used to say, "... you can't just go to church when you need something...you have to go all the time...during the good times AND the bad times."  My Mom had a theory that sometimes God will make an event (usually not a pleasant event) happen...to test you.  To see if you "keep the faith".  Now I know that my brother, father and soon to be priest nephew (ordination of November 20th - Flushing, NY - be there or be square.  Don't wait for an invitation...I'm inviting you as my "plus 1000") would disagree with this and say that God doesn't will anything bad on anyone (not sure if Noah and his arc would agree) and that things just happen.  But my Mom (wife, Mother and granddaughter of a priest) would disagree.  When my Mom had cancer (all 3 times) and a massive heart attack....her only thought was....I'll be fine...God never gives you more than you can handle.  It was almost like she was saying that GOD had certain number doses of cancer and various ailments and hardships to hand out and he only put it off on the people that could handle it.  So as I write this, I think....is my lack of "getting a break" giving someone else the ability to make it through a difficult time?  Maybe there is someone that is really overburdened with life, an can hardly handle anymore, so God says..."Andrew can handle a bit."  I mean, my life is not tragic by any means.  I have a roof over my head, food on the table, Cartier on my wrist...I'm OK.  But if someone else who really needs a break is getting it....and, I, in turn, don't get to be a SUPERSTAR (even though I really think it's my time) then So BE IT.  Like I said at the start...I try to do what I can to help other people...if this is how God wants me to help...can I say "No"?  But...it is challenging on some days not to have a pity party of one and say...."God?"