January 31, 2006
Overheard at Starbucks
"Is it possible there are people, our peers, who grew up knowing they were wanted; were praised and instructed in just amounts; are certain they belong and may very well be the best they can be in everything they do; who bring joy and happiness with them everywhere they go and live full productive lives without ever once feeling the world's gone wrong?"
---"It can't be wrong, if it feels so right."
"God's children, in every religions' sense of the term... without needing to be reborn, to be clear, to be forgiven?"
---"Anything's possible, but to preserve their world wouldn't it be absolutely essential that some mechanism, a blind, exist to prevent world-weary proles like us from recognizing them?"
"And vice-versa! Envy's a bitch and jealousy can kill, but pain, even other people's pain, is a definite party-stopper."
---"I wonder if celebrities could be their decoys?"
"Those please-let-me-please-you praise junkies? ...hmm."