Hello.  It is 5AM.  I bet you are wondering, just maybe, is she going to bed for the night or just waking up???  5AM is the Hour Of Mystery, mwhahahaha!!!  Eh, whatever.

Let’s talk about a useful topic:  To Be Of Use But Not Used. 

This is a fine line to walk in Human Land.  See, the thing of life is that for many, many, many, people the chance to use up something that is being offered is just too damn good to resist.  Let’s start with a simple example, like free food.  Say you are going to an event with free food.  Who needs to eat dinner, right??  After all _____ is providing free food!!  Yippie Skippy!!  So you go and gouge yourself.  But how is this useful to the planet?  Didn’t The Lion King remind us in the Circle Of Life that “you should never take more than you give”??  Nevermind, it is free and you are there in a Position Of Power so Here It Goes!!  Yet, something is exploited.

Exploitation is a force that really brings out the shadow side of things.  Perhaps it is because it is just so…handy…

It is like that with people.  Some sweet souls (hello, “nice” women and “nice” men) don’t mean it but end up being taken for an unexpected ride when they unwillingly give more than what was supposed to happen in the exchange because, well shit, they got used.  This happens for various reasons:  too stupid to speak up (hindsight is always 20/20); too timid to speak up (voice squelched in youth—almost always the source, re:  birth order); too focused-on-one-aspect-and-not-seeing-the-whole-thing (this is a confusing one and hard to explain but the idea is still lurking) to the point where one soul’s experience is to be used.  And I hereby proclaim there is nothing shittier in life than to be used.

Let’s turn the tables for a moment and focus on what it means to Be Of Use:  you go out, put forth something, and it is useful.  Sometimes there is monetary gain, sometimes recognition (ego swells), sometimes redemption…I think redemption is the best.  Redemption is like a belated thank you card; always acceptable at any time no matter how long time has passed.  So here once again, to recap, we have:  Useful and Used.

There is honestly, truthfully, sincerely a Fine Line between being a super hero you read about in comic books and being the Person Just Reading The Comic Books In a Lonely Place.  I mean this.  These are not galaxies apart but planets exchanging orbits—maybe moons revolving around planets even.  It is that close.  Almost…there.

The similarity is in the heart.  Nothing beats heart.  The difference is in the way that such heart is carried, and worshipped, because Don’t You Know that Everything is Worshipped in Today’s World???

There is a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Do This.  And I capitalize a lot.  That is annoying.  But in such there exists a validity.  You can see it if you pay attention.  To be used or to be of use…so close…