The Death of Fidelity

We all knew him at some point...

For most of us, he entered our lives in our teenage years. He introduced us to his friends: Love, Hope, and Happiness. He was a nice guy - never asking for much despite being the glue that held our relationships together. When he grew weak, Love and Hope would be there by his side. Whenever Fidelity was around, Happiness was close by. For this reason we cherished Fidelity; symbolized him with rings and other tokens to represent our unwavering relationship with him, Love, and Hope.

But then we lost sight of Hope after Love took a few hits due to a couple of broken hearts. We felt Fidelity had betrayed us - we felt he wasn't going to help us get to know Happiness after all.

Enter Temptation.

Temptation was the step-child of Happiness. Everyone knew she wasn't truly Happiness, but the relationship was close enough. After Hope was lost, Temptation convinced us that she was the only way we would get to know Happiness. We were reluctant to believe such things at first. We had never known Happiness without Hope and Fidelity. Nevertheless, after further convincing from her friend, Selfishness, we decided to try this "shortcut" and gave Temptation a try.

We liked hanging out Temptation, she made us feel good. She was constantly stroking our egos, reassuring us that we could have whatever we want - when we wanted it. She encouraged us to live in the here & now; to act on our primitive urges. So what if our significant others didn't want affection? Temptation reminded us that we deserved it. Deep down, we knew it was wrong. It had went against everything Fidelity taught us. Yet Temptation intoxicated us with drugs, alcohol, heart-ache, and lust; making us miserable to the point where Selfishness was finally able to convince us to make ourselves happy. We didn't care how it would make our significant others feel. Temptation and Selfishness had made us want Happiness so bad - we were willing to cheat to get there.

And so we did.

As expected, Happiness did greet us for a short amount of time, but he didn't stick around long; so we turned back to Temptation and Selfishness in hopes that they would take us back there again.

Word had got back to Fidelity of our actions, and he informed Love and Hope of our deeds. Naturally, Love and Hope moved away - this was no place for them; and Guilt and Despair filled the void that they left behind. With his two best friends gone, Fidelity began to become weak. No one came to visit him much in his last few days as everyone was far too occupied with Temptation and Selfishness - forever seeking another opportunity to briefly meet Happiness once again.

Fidelity knew that Temptation would only tease us with the thought of getting to know Happiness. He wished that everyone would've kept Love and Hope close by, but he understood how appealing Temptation and Selfishness could be. With Guilt and Despair living across the street, Fidelity knew this wasn't the place for him anymore either. He had to move on.

No one really knew where Fidelity went. In a search for him, they went to find Love and Hope, but were only met with Guilt and Despair.

It's rumored that Happiness and Fidelity are out there somewhere, but its just a rumor. Some have claimed to find Love, thus keeping sight of Hope, and knowing that Fidelity still exists...

Unfollow Diddy

I haven't blogged in a while, and for that - I apologize.

But today I was forced to get into a trending topic on Twitter called "#unfollowdiddy."

[Now, if you're not on Twitter, or don't know about it, then you might as well go and educate yourself here."]

For those of you familiar with Twitter, and the #unfollowdiddy craze, I'm sure you'll feel me on this:

It's . funny . as . hell.

Now I've never followed Diddy, nor do I really intend to, but the topic is crazy. Many people are asking why people want to #unfollowdiddy, and apparently the reason is because Diddy has over a million people following him on Twitter [There's only a few hundred thousand separating him from being more popular than the President]. Quite frankly, I'm not sure how. I couldn't find him easily by doing a search on Twitter for "Diddy." The real name on there is "Iamdiddy" [so extra] for those that are interested.

Getting back on track, there are some humorous posts when you follow the timeline of the #unfollowdiddy trend. My favorites thus far - that nearly made me cry [tears of joy] - are as follows:


"d1va_status: #unfollowdiddy because Kelly from B5 was bagging my groceries @ Safeway last week."

"WriteinBK: LMAO RT @Feminina #unfollowdiddy cuz all his Sean John clothes are made by Cassie's cousins in Vietnam, and he pays them in...Turtleshells!"

"motherwinslow: @MayTerrance #unfollowdiddy Because that's what Jesus would do."

"kickpush74: RT @Car_V #unfollowdiddy for having a dude running with his pee in a marathon (sorry Mr.Bentley)."

"Mr_Marx: #unfollowdiddy because Ciroc is really Thunderbird in a fancy bottle"

"hash_undiddy: #unfollowdiddy Cuz he hosts White Parties. My president is black. RT @certainslant"

"d1va_status: bwahaha RT @iLoveMyEgo : #unfollowdiddy cuz I seen dylan @ walmart as a cashier"

And my personal favorite...

"Mr_Marx: #unfollowdiddy because i seen total waiting tables at a truck stop"

Now, what I don't understand are the fools [yeah, I said it] who aren't for the #unfollowdiddy campaign who include #unfollowdiddy in their posts. Don't they understand it only adds to the popularity of the trending topic? Currently, its #4 on the trending topic list, proceeded by #jonaswebcast, #3wordsaftersex, and #3breakupwords.

Secretly, I'd like the #unfollowdiddy trend to make it to the top since I don't like him much after the epic fail of Danity Kane.

25 Random Things...

So I finally got bored enough to do this. I got tagged by a few people some time ago on Facebook, but instead of doing it there - I'm doing it here - 'cause I'm a rebel like that...

Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1) Naturally, I'm a quiet person. I'm a listener, and I think its how I obtained most of my knowledge about life.

2) I can kill an entire day just sitting at my computer.

3) I'm a work-a-holic. This has caused some problems since I've been laid off since the beginning of the year, and I simply don't know what to do with my time. Hence part of the reason why I'm lead to do things like this.

4) I sometimes wish I could reconnect with my best friends from 1st grade - just to see how we've grown. I think it'd be interesting.

5) I'm unenthusiastic. I can truly be excited over something, and sound completely not interested. Should I try to sound excited about something, it sounds really fake and sarcastic.

6) As I write this, I'm on the phone with someone, and still following the conversation. Like I said, I'm a good listener.

7) Gin is my poison of choice. Nothing gets me "there" quicker, not even Long Islands.

8) For the first 20 years of my life I never celebrated Christmas. Only in the past 2 years have I started exchanging gifts, but the holiday itself doesn't mean much to me.

9) In addition to the aforementioned holiday, I've never celebrated Easter either; and I grew up in a religious household.

10) I have a lot of patience, but once it's ran out for a particular situation or person; it's hard to get back.

11) I'm not a very forgiving person either, but I am working on that.

12) Despite my unenthusiastic tone, I've been told my voice is sexy, and that I should be a late-night radio host and/or sex phone operator. I'm considering the latter of the two since it doesn't require a degree.

13) My maturity level has always been above those in my age group. I feel this may become the reverse when I actually become older.

14) I often have knowledge of - and give great advice on - situations I've never been in. This sometimes confuses me as I've never been in half of the situations that I'm able to relate to or give advice on.

15) I've only had one job in my life so far.

16) I ran the 400, 200, 400 hurdles, and 110 high hurdles in high school. I wasn't very good, but the experience gave me a nice body.

17) I used to play the saxophone in both concert and marching band in high school.

18) I ceased all extra curricular activity in high school after I started working. [I'm a work-a-holic, remember?]

19) I find it hard to answer the question: "Why are you still single?"

20) I like the smell of rain when it first hits the pavement, or maybe its the smell of pavement when rain first hits it? Either way, I like that smell during those first few minutes of a rainfall.

21) Whenever possible, I include correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar when I send text messages. Ebonics is the exception, but you won't see anything along the lines of "l8r" or "4ever." Unless, of course, I'm nearing the dreaded 160 character limit.

22) I want cell phone companies to raise the 160 character limit in SMS messages. Can we get 320?

23) For the past 3-4 years, my body weight - on average - has remained between 180 and 185lbs.

24) I have a third nipple. No lie.

25) I used to practice telekinesis when I was younger, and I still believe it's real; but nothing on the level of what we see in movies. I may revisit it again one day.


And that's it! I'm not tagging anyone, if you wanna do it - just do it. lol.

Call Me Weird But...

...I think this is cute. haha.

Dance Flick

I saw this preview in the theater the other night, and I almost peed! haha.