Attack of the bubble people

Here’s another “why people suck” coming at ya!

Have you dealt with the attack of the bubble people yet? Make sure you don’t become a victim of B.E.D. (Bubble Existence Disease)

These are the folks who run around and shape their view of proper behavior based solely on “what’s good for me”, or not good for me as the case may be. They mask themselves quite nicely as well balanced people.

The bubble may rub up against you at all sorts of levels. It could be the guy who borrows your oil drain pan and returns it full of oil because he didn’t realize it’s not nice to saddle you with his responsibility of returning it like he got it and dealing with his own waste oil. He just comes back thinking “I don’t know how to get rid of this stuff” and that shapes the whole decision process on what’s right to do in the case.

With some people the bubble may be invisible almost their whole lives. It has been rendered such by sheer luck of the draw and your own unobservant nature though. With these lucky individuals good fortune has made their life comfortable enough so that the “what about me” thought process is filled very nicely and effect others very little. These folks are the most dangerous though. I say this because I realize the unwashed masses do not, dare I say can not detect a ticking time bomb when the lit fuse is wafting smoke in their faces, so understand this:

The hidden bubble person is the most dangerous for when his bubble is forced into your life it will be with the force of one million nuclear bombs.

This might be the sibling you have always though quite highly of who attempts to steal the family fortune because daddy didn’t “wove me as a child”, and I just deserve it because of that!

One trait of the garden variety bubble human is they are prone to “why me” types of moaning. They do this about myriad problems as if no one else has ever had a busy schedule, been sick, been short on money, had a loved one be sick or suffered some other way for the first time in human existence. OMG!

Watch for this as it forms the basis, the birth right of B.E.D. in a person. You can help potential disease sufferers at the early stages though if you gently remind these folks that everyone’s life is a trial by fire and how we take it is a monument to our own greatness. If the person is allowed to fully succumb to B.E.D. it sometimes becomes impossible to make them see that they should consider other people in life because their shopping list of “wrongs” has become too large.

A list filled with things like:

- Why didn’t daddy love me (he probably did stupid, but even if not, how you live as a grown up has nothing to do with that does it!)

- I always wanted “fill in the blank” and my brother got it (So what, your grown up, get your own and stop blaming your brother!!!)

- Why did Joe get the promotion I deserve (first off been there, maybe Joe did deserve it, maybe he blew the boss, either way your better off, so once again stop the moaning)

See what it really comes down to is we are all people and we need to get along. If you go off and say “My needs” are more important than yours than you are the one derailing society. Here’s what I suggest for all you out there:

- Stop moaning

- Respect others

- Care about others needs as if they were your own

- If you want something get it the old fashion way: EARN IT

- If you can contribute, contribute, and not to some stupid politico group BTW, contribute to breast cancer or something that has a right to be an organization.

- Next time your driving in your Escalade SUV and the guy on the motorcycle is going too slow for you, don’t run him down, he might be a software engineer and father of three who has something to contribute and your pissy rush don’t mean shit anyway.

Look we all have the bubble sometimes; like when were down or stressed. The measure of our own greatness is in how quickly we realize it and pop it by our self…

If you have not got the idea by now, you probably never will, but don’t worry, there’s a guy with a needle just around the corner dying to pop the bubble for you!