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This exact phrase was uttered by a Thai friend from a very underprivileged background who works in the now non-existant tourism sector and it was a sentence that struck me significantly.
We were talking about her past and why she was where she is today and she told me of her hopes for her future, then told of the 'friends' and associates that put down her dreams and told her she could not have them. She has nothing good in her life except that it may one day get better. What a pack of A-holes...
Dirt poor with next to no income facing being
homeless thanks to the current Tourism situation in Thaliand (read none
in a city that relies on tourism as its main (only?) income source),
and next to no Government help (unemployment benefits equivalent to
US$15/month I have been told - enough to eat rice and soy sauce).
Now it is easier to understand why so many her give
up and accept what fate brings them, or they give up and turn to drugs
to achieve a good feeling once in a while, or worse yet they give up
and take their own lives.
Many people here have scars on their wrists from attempted suicides.
And so I found this young lady with very few
prospects and at least another year or two of very tough times ahead of
her asking me if it was alright for her to have dreams of a better life.
I feel lucky to have been able to support her in
this, sometimes you need some words of encouragement or support just at
the right time to give you endurance.
Yet I see these unsupportive A-holes everywhere I
go. Normally I just let it slide when I here someone has been "dissing"
me (talking sh!t about me).
One recent idiot, Chris W. was telling all and
sundry that I have no back, this is from a 55kg fatty kid with no
muscle development at all to speak of. On top of this when I contacted
him he had a very condescending attitude towards me. It appears not
only does he consider his physique superior, but that the reason some
portions of my physique is superior is because I am 7 feet tall. Not
because I put in the work. And he thinks he is a superior actor too.
Hey Chris. Guess what? I AM F-ING BETTER THAN YOU.
And you want to know why? Not because I am taller,
or I have a super big ego (like you) but because of only 1 thing -
results. I have the results you wish for but don't put in the effort to
achieve.
Results speak for themselves.
And even though I have better results that 99.9% of
the "Actors" (read featured extras with delusions of grandeur) I do not
walk around talking down to them and I do not say things about people
that I would not say to their faces.
Alright, now I am putting them down but I have had enough of the bulldust from losers.
I could go on and on about these people, like the
aging self righteous thieving vegetarian pedophile who had to go
spreading rumours about me for what? I don't know, his delusional acid
flashbacks made him do it maybe? Or maybe he just could not stand
someone else doing well when he wasn't.
Or my best friends growing up telling me I could not
make it when I was trying to break into the US professional wrestling
scene - scratch those "friendships" - I never talked to them again.
I am no where near a movie star, I am a struggling
actor trying to make it. I have intelligently found myself a niche and
made myself marketable in that niche, I spent years and years molding
myself into the product I had to be to corner my identified niche
market.
I am making headway and I believe a 'break-though' role is not so far off. And I will succeed mearly because I will not give up.
Yet more people put me down than congratulate me. As the losers do to my Thai friend who dreams of a better tomorrow.
In the end we see everyone for who they are though.
I you have a dream and work for it, then in the end you will have it,
you will have a life of fullfillment as you worked for what you
wanted... and all the others end up bitter poor unloved old people who
die early because they have nothing to live for.
So if you are going through a period where every
nobody nothing loser (even if they are family members) is putting you
down you can remember this lesson I learned from Amway - "If people are
talking about you it means you are getting ahead and this scares them
as it reminds them of their own failures"
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