"Show me a man who hasn't sold out and i'll show you someone who hasn't seen the right price."

It’s true that within society there are always the people who would take the right price for anything. But is this everyone? Absolutely. I don’t care who they have to step on, what they have to do, if you tell someone that you are going to make them famous but they have to ditch their friend who they have been singing with since they were in elementary school, you think they won’t? Once you show them that number that they have never even imagined before? Think again buddy. The only exception to this rule may be family. I’m not talking brothers and sisters, I’m saying that little bond that parents have for their families. You know, like Harry Potter status, mother giving her life for her son. Yeah, that’s it. Mothers don’t sell out their sons, or a lot of them won’t. But you go search the world and you will find plenty of people who will be the first ones in line if you offer the right things. People go around preaching like they are good people, but in the end most of the people will turn right around and not think twice about those things that they preach against. And I’m not speaking literally, although obviously that happens too. People always start out with morals in their lives. Somewhere in their youth they come up with rules about what is wrong and what is right, what they can and cannot do, and who they want to become. These usually include all of the things society tells us we have to do – be polite, help people, not lie, care about important issues, be smart, etc. But around 2 or 3 years later, those things become amended. You start telling little white lies, you start cheating on your chores. Everyone does something to break what they consider right, weather it is that you will never go behind someone’s back, you won’t secretly date someone else’s boyfriend, you won’t ever drink alcohol or do drugs, you won’t get married. Everyone has rules that they make, but when things are right in front of them, they can’t refuse. Like selling people out. The funny and best thing about it is that they still go along preaching the same things, telling other people not to lie to go behind peoples back, even get mad at other people for doing it when they are doing it at the same time. People like to preach like they are perfect. But no one can keep that fairy tale story of their life full of perfection. Everyone will give in. Especially for money.

We wear the mask that grins and lies

Every person has a mask. Most people have a tendency to be fake. No one wants to have people believe their lives are anything less than perfect. They drive around their shiny new Mercedes Benz, with their hair done, new clothes, and their mask. They hope their sorrow, despair, and lack of perfection will stay under the radar. Even when they have a slip-up and someone asks “What’s wrong?” they then respond with a plastered on fake smile and reply with the same sugar coated lies. They falsely assure them that “Nothing is Wrong”. People in this world go out of their way to cover their true feelings and to escape reality. They shut out the people around them, and don’t let them help. They cause themselves more problems and sorrow by not letting anyone in. But to them it seems better this way. Once they step out of their house they put on their mask because this is how we grin and lie.

A Promise is comfort to fools

A promise. What is a promise anyway? A group of words some person throws together, just to make you believe them. Promises are bullshit. Why should we make promises when they are always broken? And if it is so important to you why can’t you just fulfill it instead of wasting away our precious time with your empty words and fake emotions. Remember when we were little and every promise we made followed with a linking of pinkies or a “cross my heart hope to die.” If that were true there would be a lot more deaths around. Promises are made to be broken. Made to fall apart. When your boyfriend promises that was the “last time” and “it wont ever happen again” and follows it up with a “it was stupid baby, I love you”, are you really going to believe him? Promises are just a bunch of words people put together to provide a false sense of comfort for you. Promises are just a comfort for fools.

You cannot Borrow Courage

Courage isn’t something you are born with, and it isn’t something you can borrow from your friend. Courage is something you develop over time, though experience and failures. Courage is one of those things that sometimes even when you have it you can fall flat on your face. You know like when the nerdy quiet boy works up all the courage to ask out the pretty girl, to only find out it is too late. But that should not make you ashamed or embarrassed. The only embarrassment would have been to be a coward. There are more cowards in the world then there are courageous people. Anyone could be a coward. It doesn’t take much, only to hide yourself in what could have been. It takes a strong person to be courageous. Even when it seems as if the last thing you want to do is risk it, that your queue to do so. Courage isn't something you can borrow; you have to develop it on your own because courage is different for everyone.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that life is a moderately good play. Could you imagine watching life? There might be some good parts, with huge events, drama, action, but the rest would be so boring. A bad third act? How about a badly written script. We all say the wrong things all the time, we rarely have time to rehearse our lines, and we definitely do not get to practice with other people or give them advice on their performance. Could you imagine? That would make arguments so much easier. But I am sure parts of it would be like a soap opera, maybe some action scenes, possibly some huge thriller scenes. Full of secrets and surprises. With the lights on you on the stage all the secrets come out. The things you are embarrassed about, the things no one will know, the things that will hurt others. Talk about dramatic irony. The audience will be going crazy with the rush of secrets. Everyone has them. Things you did that no one knows about, or maybe you did with someone else and now the two of you awkwardly pretend it never happened. The things that will hurt people you care about so you keep to yourself. The play of my life would be a shitshow. No one would be able to keep up with the backstories and the secrets that surround my life. With the characters and the plot. It is so confusing even the actors wouldn't understand. I would be scared to watch the things that go on behind my back, and a lot of people would be hurt. Life is better contained. Once you put it out there in the spotlight, you can't take it back.

A promise is comfort to fools

When someone promises you something, and you accept it, you place your trust in that person. You assume that they will come through for you. But as the saying goes “to assume makes an ass out of u and me.” But still a promise provides that cushion in our consciousness. That, “well he said he would.” That our minds need in order to comprehend that it wasn’t our fault when things go horribly wrong. When that promise doesn’t come through it can’t be our fault. It wasn’t us who didn’t fulfill our word.

If a promise is comfort for fools, then we are all fools. We all find comfort when someone else makes us a promise. Especially when faced with the idea that it won’t be our fault if that promise fails. The comfort is not in the trust of another, but the lack thereof. It is in the idea that we can’t be blamed.