Grow Up

This letter is written to whoever it concerns. It is mainly for you, who so believe that you're the king of the universe, and God's most valued creation; however, it may also be something of mere insight for others.

Will you ever realize that the world doesn't revolve around you? For starters, in our solar system, the earth revolves around the sun. All source of life on earth is possible because God created the lovely sun for us to have. You? Well, you're just like me; you're no more than one out of the six billion of our kind. The way you handle yourself, and how highly you think of yourself just amazes me at who you believe you are. Call me selfish or arrogant, but when I seem like I don't give a crap about the way you are, it's probably because I've come close to losing all my patience having to deal with you and your beloved attitude. When it seems like a lot of situations make you seem like you're the bad guy, you really have to look at yourself and wonder why that is. Of course, you obviously think that even though people are looking at you with the stink eye, you defend your sappy ego 'til the very end, with pointless and irrelevant excuses, as if nothing is your fault and people just like to pick on you for no reason.

You talk as if you're all-knowing, as if you've seen the world from every corner, but yet you're not even old enough to say you've experienced a fraction of what life is all about. If you love to be the smartass around here, I have no problem with that; after all, somebody's gotta do it. But if you want to live your life with that title, I wouldn't want to be around you, say, thirty years from now. Just let me say that if you think you can use your "all-powerful and all-knowing" abilities to dictate the way people around you behave, you're asking for people to point their fingers at you when something comes back to you. You're responsible for the words you put into the ears of other people. If one day you come out and randomly complain to me that everyone seems like they're grumpy and pissed off all the time, uh, I'd check to see why. News flash: it's probably because of you, dufus! Since you know all, you've probably heard that joke that says, "when you claim that everyone is weird, it's actually you that is weird and everyone else is 'normal' - whatever normal is".

Well, it's time for you to look at yourself in the mirror. "Who the heck are you?" should be the first question that you ask your reflection. Then, once you've finally realized who you are, please ask yourself who you are to this world and the reason why you're alive. I really hope that you can, soon enough, take part of a short term missions trip so life can slap you in the face and tell you that you're not all that you think you are. God is in control, not you. Other than that, there is not much else that I need to tell you. And would it kill you to at least try and show some respect to people other than yourself?

You would honestly be a very wonderful person if you went about yourself the right way; you've got it all, enough to live life very large, just an attitude adjustment is needed.

Sincerely,

Nathan