According to the urban dictionary, a douche bag is a
fellow with inflated ego that rates himself far above his worth; simply put it
as: people repellant! Now, a story to illustrate the
douche bag.
I saw a movie series about a girl, we will call her
Tessie. Tessie was conceived on the night of her parents’ high school prom. Her
parents got carried away by the thrill of graduating from high school and the
hype of the night, had unprotected sex and the girl was conceived.. Her father,
we will call him Jade, who was a quarter back in the school’s football team denied
the pregnancy, so her mother, Anne, who was the valedictorian of the year had
to go through the pain of the rejection and the stress of the pregnancy alone,
bore the child and gave her up for adoption. 16years later, the girl reappeared
at the door of Jade’s house, asking him to sign some papers for her to be free
from foster care. At this time, the Jade was 30+, neither went to the university
nor had a professional football career and was running a not-flourishing bar,
while the Anne was a famous and successful radio presenter; they both decided
to be responsible parents now that the girl found them and decided to transfer Tessie
to their high school. This action brought memories to Jade, seeing his high
school awards and pictures of him on the pitch sent him into deep thoughts and
he said “some people reach their peak in high school”. He simply became a
douche bag after his fame as a quarter back in his high school football team.
He thought he had reached the peak of his life, he had no idea of the downward
spiral his life was about to go until 16years after when he took his daughter
to the same school.
It is not funny
when you reach your peak in high school when your life is meant to be just starting! The question
becomes what happened? How did “what” happen? As teenagers with relatively few
experiences in life, it is easy to get carried away with success and start
feeling superior to other mates; this is an onset of pride! It might not even
be as a result of a success, it might be the financial status of parents, their
car, house, neighborhood, your cloths, etc. anything at all that makes you as
if you are superior to your mates. Once you are proud, you act like everyone
else should worship you and pay you royalties for being around them, you may
even ask them for sacrificial offerings before you can be their friend. This
makes you repulsive to potential friends and this qualifies as a douche bag!
An
old adage says pride comes before a fall, what does this mean, how does it
apply?!
For you to be proud/arrogant
means you see yourself as being at the peak of your desire, your dream, your
goals, your aspiration, you see no one as a competition or of any additional
value to you and somehow, you get comfortable with the spot you are at and you
start to get stagnated; but in life nothing remains stagnant, you are either going
up or coming down. Getting stagnated marks the beginning of a fall. Always
remember, as a teenager, your life is just beginning, getting stagnated at that
point is no option, so, you cannot afford to be a douche bag and you cannot
afford to rest on your oars. Becoming a douche bag at this point means you base
yourself and life worth on some ephemeral items which you can work to improve
and make permanent or better still, an item which you did not work for e.g.
your father’s wealth. The douche bag mentality makes you grow up subconsciously
not being able to create your own wealth or maintain your father’s wealth,
which, means you are only preparing for a bleak future. While your mates are
busy working hard to improve their lives, you are busy gloating over yourself;
all you need is to blink and you will see them fly past and above you. If Bill Gates had been a douche bag, maybe he
would not have been friends with Steve Job, may be there would not have been
fine fonts for Micro Soft today, remember, they were both brilliant and in the
same business, but Steve was broke; if Barack Obama did not have the right
words and attitude for people, maybe he would not have been the president of
the USA today, just may be.
Never look at yourself like you are on top of the world
or look down on other people, always remember, as a teenager, your life is just
starting, people are bundles of potentials and you need the right attitude to
tap them, else, you will be left alone like stagnant water that can only stink
and breed mosquitoes.
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