"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken."--Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

Right on Tyler! I couldn't agree more. Most people today are sticking feathers up their butts and believing that they are chickens. We are not unique snowflakes.

This is the biggest manufactured LIE that has ever been told. From the time I was a very small child I was told how special I was. What no one was telling me was that every other child my age was being told the same thing. Then, all of a sudden they send us to school. They put us all in a room together and we started to notice (those of us who were smart enough) that we were all the same. But chiefly, that not one of us was special and all of us thought we were.

Now there are people that never discover this truth. Basically it's flawed logic. Not everyone can be special because if we all are then nobody is. The people that still believe that they are special tend to be those who expect special privileges.

These are the people who, in spite of their selfish, pathetic, greed-driven lives, still believe that they are better than the rest of us. I have a "friend" who just finalized a divorce from a man she never wanted to be married to, never treated right, and on whom she blames the divorce. She has custody of their child, who she leaves in the care of her mother most of the time while she goes out partying every night of the week. She works a part-time job, goes to college and lives at home with her parents. She is 26 years old. It's time to stop being a teenager. But does she know this? No. Because she is special. She is better than everyone she knows. So much better in fact, that she doesn't feel she should have to work a full-time job, or support herself or her daughter. She is so special that she feels it is okay to lie about anything and everything to everyone. It's the saddest thing I've ever seen. I've never known anyone who knew less about who they were.

To a degree, most people need to realize that they are not special. It keeps you humble and helps you realize the value in work. Alot of the problems with America's youth stem from the belief that they are above work. Why are they above work? Because they are so special!

Of course, I can understand why parents fall into this trap. When you have a child, you do believe that they are special in many ways. However, we need to be careful in how the message gets to our children. After all, there is a difference between being unique and being better than others. We should celebrate uniqueness, without teaching our children to be biggotted snots.

Have a nice day!