Monday, October 15, 2012

Single Serving Friends



Remember that quote in Fight Club about Single Serving Friends?  With the recent election I think that we have realized that we have some of those on our friends lists. Our political views are often what we use to define ourselves. But do our politics, make us single serving?

I guess they do if one view is the reason that you define yourself with one party or another. A single idea makes you single serving. I can’t define my views on a historical text, which could be either a great piece of literature, or a truth that we all must face.

While some rant and rave from their dark caves, scribbling on walls, and trying to light a fire with two twigs- there are some that remember that technology is a library card and a tool that can gather all the information that is needed to make your own decisions on what is right and wrong.

So while you enjoy that single serving of FOX News, or MSNBC, remember that their single serving views are designed to trap you in the tar pits. While you digest hours of pointless High School talent shows, remember these massive doses of single servings often lead to an acid reflux of contention. While we watch these judges bully contestants, and try to explain that bullying is wrong, remember the genetically modified apple never falls far from the contaminated soil.

Single serving for 24 hours a day.  A repeat of desperate rhetoric, force fed through tubes that can never be removed, or snatched from the paws of single serving zombies. Single serving post, with the screams of look at me, I am still here. The single serving post of I just drank a beer. The single serving vague open ended questions, or suggestions of need for serious medication.

So how do you find out if you are a single serving friend? Well that is rather easy. If your last five post are quotes from the bible, then you guessed it- you are a single serving Jesus. If your last five post are all about food, then you are single serving food porn addict in need of a food fix. If your last five post are nothing but ass, then you are single serving with the lack of class.

Am I single serving?  Well, I think not. I leave posts that leave your brain in a knot. From sports and cheers, even a couple of beers, my timeline will take you through the years. The years were I was blinded with single serving nothingness. Of course I fell for the game, but I decided not to play, or think this or that way. But rather express the true me, love me or hate. It really does not matter, they do not control my fate.

So lets us all remember that we can all be winners, sinners, ignorant, and smart. And we often need a stroll in the park. These next few weeks are planned to make us weak. Better stand now while we can still speak. Speak against single serving plots of war and death. Single serving plots to increase profits for the rich and increasing the poor. Because I will be single serving no more.

Go ahead delete, defriend or just pretend. Because some of us will be single serving to the end. While we say we do not judge, and we are full of compassion, then why or why not, do some keep on asking? To share their love, attend a better school, or be giving a chance. Because if you are single serving, let this be your last. Bring more to your life- that is all that I ask.