Stand Tall

Ahhhh...after a very long period of.....just being lazy......I'M BACK.  And how better to start today's blog, but with the chorus of an old song....

"Stand Tall, don't you fall oh, don't go and do something foolish you're feeling it like everyone, it's silly human pride"


Hmmm...so this chorus can be interpreted many different ways and makes me think of several different situations.  The first is really sad.  A young man that I grew up with took his own life last week.  No one, not even the family, really knows what drove him to this end.  He was an outwardly happily married father with, what seemed, everything going for him.  It's sad to think that someone can be in a place that is so dark, with what seems like there is no way out, and take your own life to solve the problem.  What's sad is that if he had only shared his feelings with someone, he may have been able to get help...maybe his problem was magnified in his mind and made to seem bigger than it really was....maybe it was just "silly human pride" and he saw no other way out.  At any rate...it's sad, and he will be missed.  May his memory be eternal.


NOW, I'm not sure if I can turn this around and bring this back to my usual sarcastic blog, but I am going to try.  I don't want to minimize his death, but as my Mom used to say, "Life is for the living, and you have to go on.  Never forget them, but continue to LIVE."  So here we go....  the other way that I read into these lyrics is...Stand Tall and don't be a big pussy.  Why are SO many people SO petty?  Why is it that people pretend that they are all big and tough and unable to admit that sometimes....some things hurt their feelings?  And when their feeling DO get hurt, why don't they go to the source of the hurt INSTEAD of getting other people involved to fight their battles?  WHY I ask you, WHY???  It's always funny to me that there are those people in the world that act like nothing bothers them...they're immune to everything....but really....they're NOT.  It's all a facade.  They talk tough, they act tough, but at the end of the day...they're not tough at all.  Why can't people just be themselves and admit that they have feelings.  Like the elephant man said...."I am not an animal!"  It was him saying...I have feelings...and I  hurt when you say "hurtful" things.  NOW, the big part is when the hurtful things...or things interpreted to be hurtful may have been a joke!  That's my favorite.  Little boys wearing big man's shoes.  If you can't take a joke...then maybe, just maybe you should never make a joke yourself.  Hmmm...now that's a thought....quit being a big pussy and stop dishing it out if you can't take it.  Yes, that is the point of this blog and how I interpreted the song.  It should have been sung...."Stand Tall, don't you fall oh, over your big fat lip that's hanging on the ground because you think you're such a big tough guy, but actually you are a baby that can't take a joke, but loves to dish them out, ohhhhhhh.....ooooo yeah...."  Get my point?  If you don't...THEN ASK ME AND DON'T MAKE A BIG "F"ing DEAL OUT OF NOTHING AND GET ALL KINDS OF OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED TO DEFLECT FROM THE MAIN POINT THAT YOU'RE A BIG BABY WHY CAN CONSTANTLY DISH IT OUT, BUT CAN'T TAKE IT.  NOW GROW UP AND GO GET YOUR SIPPY CUP.  Whew, that feels better.  Remember, Stand Tall...don't you fall....and if you do....get right back up and step over that SOB that's bringing you down.  ; )   LYLT!!!!