Can you Stand the Curiosity?

I can't help it. I'm a curious person; I'm a nosy person. I can cover it up in 'helpfulness' wrap it up in 'caring concern' but bottom line - I like to know things. That's why I put a counter on my main page. Because I want to know if anyone is reading, if I'm making them laugh or if they are surprised because they aren't the only one to deal with a sex crazed divorced father of one on a phone. They aren't the only one who tries to distinguish a tone and spend dinner discussing it with their friends over sushi. Or deal with a boss that makes you buy your own Birthday presents. It's funny, we've been around for tens of thousands of years yet we think we are the first people to ever deal with life and it's challenges. Everything we go through has happened before to someone else. Even the most crazy life experiences I have lived through has happened to millions of other people. So how did they survive? What did they do? And most important of all, did they end up happy?

That's really the only answer I want to know- did they end up happy. Did they get past it or did it fester inside of them like a boil that refused to pop. How many people survived my life and how many crashed and burned? Do I even have a fighting chance or should I just go down in a blaze of glory? I would rather hear the awful truth than not know at all. I think that's why we keep reading about other people's problems and watching Ricki Lake & Dr. Phil. Because eventually we will hear about someone just like us and maybe we can learn the secret to our happiness.

I mean can you honestly say that you haven't once gone through something that isn't worthy of a Jerry Spinger episode? Can you just picture that episode in your head? Everyone important in your life is on stage either supporting you or insulting you. The audience egging everyone on and you hope that you are the one they are cheering for and not booing. Maybe that's the trick. To not avoid living through a Jerry Springer episode but to be on the cheering side of one. Those who get boo'd the most lose. At the very least, I hope I can manage that.