I like to think of myself as a horse. Sometimes I'm soft and cuddly and people can wrap their arms around my neck and lean on me. Sometimes I buck and kick and run away.
Some people are like sweet little deer. They are doe eyed and a little misty as if filmed through the soft lens of a camera. They seem almost to float through life with a certain glow about them.
Some people are blood sucking leeches. Not the cute, fluffy kind you're probably thinking about. The toxic, vile, acid leaking ones that suck out every ounce of joy and happiness until you're left a hollow, vacant shell of a person.
The line is clearly defined between leech and deer. Some deer have leech tendencies, but rarely does a leech act like a deer. If you are confused about whether a person is a leech or a deer, consider the following:
Example A:
Your mother, whom you haven't visited for over a year, has just died. After complaining about the heat several times and about the long drive, you hit up several family members for gas money during the visitation. Since they are paying for your place to stay while you are in town, and many of them came from farther away than you did, they refuse to give you any money. Failing to achieve your goals, you ask the funeral home for money for gas. - Deer or Leech? If you guessed LEECH, you are correct!
Number 2:
Your girlfriend is cheating on you. You refuse to admit it. After seeing numerous emails and text messages between your girlfriend and another man, you come home from work to find your unemployed girlfriend and her "friend" watching movies while curled up on your couch. You find out that they've been drinking and he has been there all day. You ask what's for supper and are told they ordered pizza, but already ate. When you go to the fridge, you see that she didn't do the grocery shopping as she had promised and now you have nothing to eat except a piece of stale bread and a carrot. You understand though, she has been stressed out lately about not working. She needs to kick back and relax sometimes and you probably haven't been around enough with working all that over time to pay the bills. To make up for it, you load the dishwasher and ask them if they want some wings since you're placing an order. - Deer or Leech? DEER!
Tres:
Your father is ill. He did very well for himself during his lifetime and has plenty of money to pay his medical bills and for someone to take care of him. You realize that he probably will never be able to drive again and he has a very nice truck. You take the keys and have him sign the title over in your name. No sense in a new truck going to waste. After several months in a nursing home you never visit, he passes away. You find out that he had put in his will that you were to get the truck and your sister is to get the house. You get angry because now you don't get anything and it cost you money to get that title switched over. He spent all his money on the nursing home. So, you break into the house and steal some of his guns and items that he willed to grandchildren and other people. They should have been yours anyway, right? - Deer or Leech? LEECH!
So, let's all try to be something besides deer and something besides leeches, shall we? We don't like roaches either.
This has been a public service announcement.
