A friend asked me this morning about what I do, or more precisely, how I entertain myself and have fun around here. Of course I asked what brought this type of questioning upon me. Well, you use these young girls in your signatures all the time and you send them songs for their birthdays, not to mention your love of the JibJab website and putting them in those mini-movies. These are valid questions, I suppose. But I have been waiting for this to be brought up and now I will answer the question that my friend really wanted to ask. What do I expect from these young ladies?
The answer is.....absolutely nothing. That's right. Not one damn thing. I do what I do for the most selfish reason of all. I do it all for me.
Now before the reader starts shaking their head let me explain a few things. I know who I am. I know that for the most part I am at least twenty-five years older than most of the ladies I interact with here. I have to look at the mirror every morning and be reminded that my hair is getting a more silver tint to it, laugh lines are getting more prominant which is OK because I love to laugh, and my eyes are getting to look more tired each year. In short, I have no illusion of ever having a romantic interlude with any of these girls because I've had mine already.....when I was their age. Yeah, I'm not looking for sex.
I do this selfish thing strictly for me as stated above. The reader might already know that when I put together a new signature picture or anything else with someone's image in it that I have their permission to use said image or images. They tell me they like what I made or that they are flattered. This make me feel good. Sometimes I have been called upon to help a person in some way to relieve them of some burden or care and I do what I can whether it be with a phone call or writing a check. This makes me feel good. At a gathering I bring little gifts to break through someone's fear of meeting people and take their mind off those thoughts and they relax and smile, or show someone that they are indeed thought of and appreciated for making others feel good and ease their problems.. This also makes me feel good.
Are you starting to understand? I do these things to perhaps inspire others to feel good. If they smile at me then I feel good. And maybe, just maybe......when these young ladies and others who I have helped in some small way reach my lofty old age then they will think back to what I might have done and lend a hand in some way to someone who is newly standing where they stood all those years ago. Then they will know what I know.
And selfishly feel good.
The answer is.....absolutely nothing. That's right. Not one damn thing. I do what I do for the most selfish reason of all. I do it all for me.
Now before the reader starts shaking their head let me explain a few things. I know who I am. I know that for the most part I am at least twenty-five years older than most of the ladies I interact with here. I have to look at the mirror every morning and be reminded that my hair is getting a more silver tint to it, laugh lines are getting more prominant which is OK because I love to laugh, and my eyes are getting to look more tired each year. In short, I have no illusion of ever having a romantic interlude with any of these girls because I've had mine already.....when I was their age. Yeah, I'm not looking for sex.
I do this selfish thing strictly for me as stated above. The reader might already know that when I put together a new signature picture or anything else with someone's image in it that I have their permission to use said image or images. They tell me they like what I made or that they are flattered. This make me feel good. Sometimes I have been called upon to help a person in some way to relieve them of some burden or care and I do what I can whether it be with a phone call or writing a check. This makes me feel good. At a gathering I bring little gifts to break through someone's fear of meeting people and take their mind off those thoughts and they relax and smile, or show someone that they are indeed thought of and appreciated for making others feel good and ease their problems.. This also makes me feel good.
Are you starting to understand? I do these things to perhaps inspire others to feel good. If they smile at me then I feel good. And maybe, just maybe......when these young ladies and others who I have helped in some small way reach my lofty old age then they will think back to what I might have done and lend a hand in some way to someone who is newly standing where they stood all those years ago. Then they will know what I know.
And selfishly feel good.
