“You’re a nobody!”
“You’re not important!”
“You’re not good enough.”
“What makes you better than anybody else?”
“You’re just a guy from Kentucky! You’re never going to do it!”
“ARE YOU GAY?”
These are all statements that I’ve heard from family members, random people on the streets, ex girlfriends, family members of girls I’ve associated myself with, and creepy old women that feel their age provides them the status to be jerks! Don’t get me wrong, I love old women, but come on now grandma, just because you don’t get what it is I’m trying to do or why I’m trying to do it, that doesn’t give you the right to step all over me! I’m a cool dude, but that movie “HOT FUZZ”, the scene where the guy goes flying over the fence and ninja kicks that old women in the face, at times that thought is all that gives me peace, that and the idea of actually acquiring my nirvana and dancing with Ellen DeGeneres!
For starters, I’m not a nobody! Every time someone tells me that I’m wasting my time trying to dance with Ellen because I’m not important enough I have to wonder to myself what they deem a person of value is? I think many people who set out to do amazing and impossible things let people get to them. They hear enough times that they aren’t important, that they aren’t special, that they are nobodies and somewhere deep down inside they start to believe it. It’s as if as a culture we collectively make it a point to pull people down who want to fly. Much like gravity, sometimes you just got to be a little inventive to defy it!
I’ll never believe anyone who tells me I’m not good enough to dance with Ellen DeGeneres! I’ll never accept that I’m just not important enough! Honestly, at this point in my life I’ve met my fair share of “important people”! Truth be told, they’re just like everybody else I meet at the core of it. They all have struggles, they all have issues, insecurities, wants, dreams, and passions. But truthfully if they would have not believed in themselves enough to pursue whatever career they are excelling at, would they ever be the people us “lowlings”, as my aunt so graciously put it, admire and respect? No limitation, no barrier, no issue is great enough to stop someone from capturing their Ellen dance! I want an ELLEN DANCE! I will never give up on this! I will never believe I can’t pull it off! I will never accept other people’s opinions as justification to lose myself! Though my road is a turbulent one to traverse, I will not turn back! I will march forward, I will keep my head held high, I will smile when I feel as if I need to cry, I will not be a puppet, I will pull my own strings, I will do my own thing, and I will not lose faith in myself or my friends, without whom I’d never of made it this far!
With all this said, I hope you all can say the same about yourselves! Also, if you come across a purple cow, ask it some questions! Purple cows are amazing marketing tools and totally the hippest way to pick up chicks! SUCK ON THAT DUDE WHO PICKED A FIGHT WITH ME IN MY PUMPKIN SUIT! Suck on that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But honestly, the only nirvana I can imagine at this point in my life is standing next to Ellen on that stage of hers, screaming “YES!!!” at the top of my lungs, and table hopping like crazy. This is not that far fetched of a dream. This is not an impossibility. I honestly feel for the first men to investigate the fields of science and mathematics. My struggle is to dance with an amazing celebrity. Their struggle was to convince and transform an entire cultural perspective behind the mechanics of existence. But the fact we live in a world where people have walked on the moon, been to the depths of the oceans, and can have their entire genome mapped out is testament to the capabilities of countless people having faith in themselves.