+ Oops! Your insecurity is showing!

I loathe people. My latest reason is because of something I noticed that is particularly rampant among the cretins with which I am forced to co-habitate. Everywhere I look, some self-serving douche bag is insulting people left and right for no apparent reason. These people are the thorn in the ass of every decent human being (the few they are). They're bullies.

These low-lives are everywhere in society: on playgrounds as kids, in the halls of high schools, in places of work, college, even in churches. They love to insult the people who will most likely own their ass later in life. Everybody knows somebody like this. They take particular pride in getting under your skin, usually by insulting you at every turn. The thing that they, in all their immature ineptitude, fail to realize is that they are making themselves look stupid, insecure, and as if they have nothing better to do than say inane and idiotic insults like "you suck". Wow, that was deep, you waste of space. At least if you're going to be an annoying cad, have the enlightenment to realize how ignorant you sound.

All of us has met a person like this in our travels. This obnoxious dredge of a human will either subtly, or, for the lesser primates, more obviously, attempt to make you feel pathetic by downing your choices, your friends, your hobbies, your major, or when you decide to take a crap. The genius (and I use that in a purely sarcastic way) is that while these people bash those around them like the flotsam they are, they are turning the people whose intelligence and/or talent threatens them into depressive recluses, successfully making themselves feel like they have actual worth (which they don't). The best part is that they think nobody realizes their game. Meanwhile, the people on the receiving end, instead of thinking they're awesome, have gained a reason to work their butts off and defeat their foe, and will laugh when they're successful (published author, for instance) and run into their former tormentor asking 'do you want fries with that?' I'm sure Bill Gates was stuffed into a few hundred lockers as a kid, and I bet the idiots who did it are now flipping burgers or dead thanks to Bill's friends in high places.

Back to the dick heads and bitches who perpetrate: they think they're fooling everybody, but in the end, they still have to face their inferiority complexes and all the now-powerful enemies they acquired along the way. The problem is that they are so insecure about their talents (or lack thereof) that they have to pick on anything they possibly can. That, my friends, is why you never hear an intelligent insult. They can only make fun of your choices (because how dare somebody make their own decisions and do what THEY want with their life?) or find fault in the superficial. My personal favorite is "you're fat". No shit? Do you think that any fat kid doesn't know this? What are you proving by pointing it out? Only that you're a shallow dunce with utterly no sense of empathy. You may also hear "loser" or "freak" (yeah, like I care what your standards of cool are), as well as the ever amusing "dyke/fag" to somebody who is probably straight (even though the bully likely harbors homosexual tendencies and bashes because he or she can't take the pressure of their orientation), or any other similar so-called witty insults, that as Leah says are "word collisions of idiocy."

Here's what I have to say to every brainless, witless moron who would make the mistake to insult me or others with actual potential: grow up. Nobody thinks you're cool because you can call somebody fat or freak. You are only conclusively proving your insecurity. You may notice that people who are truly secure don't need to resort to childish name calling like some sad 7th grader under serious hormonal stress. By acting like an insensitive wart, you are saying: "I have no confidence in myself as a person so I make fun of others like the pussy I am because it makes me feel like less of a talentless hack."

Maybe instead of competing where you can't possibly win, find what you are good at and develop that instead of pissing away your time being insecure and useless. Instead of measuring yourself against impossible and utterly arbitrary standards of society and others, measure yourself against yourself. Work to better yourself, not to beat somebody else, but for the pleasure of doing so. Stop being such a bitter crybaby and face the reality that you pick on others to feel better about yourself, and then do something about it. Until then, pack your bags, honey, because Jr. High is that way (->) and you won't find me there.

Get me out of here!