Trying To Please Anyone But Yourself Can Make You Look Ridiculous When Things Go Wrong

I sit here on my second day of having a moderate allergic reaction to some anti aging, anti wrinkle face cream I purchased from Walgreens last weekend. The word 'weekend' is the operative word here. As I look like a white version of the 'Weekend' from one of his videos where he's been assaulted in the face. No, my allergic reaction is not the full puffy faced look one gets from getting stung by five insects type. No, it's more of the streaky kind you get where it's evident where you rubbed in the cream. It's streaky and spotty as if I got into a bar brawl or bike wreck. It's store brand, Loreal for Pete's sake! I look like a bit of an idiot. I feel like an even bigger one. I've recently, changed my diet for the better and have experimented with a more inclusive diet of herbs like dandelions. I thought it could have been that. I even went through my refrigerator this morning tossing out the herbs I'd picked naturally in the forests behind my home. But, after looking in the mirror this morning and reviewing my 'frankenstein' like appearance, I'm seeing the same pattern of where I rubbed in the cream, in the welts, and where they are located. After two days I'm realizing the culprit is my bent toward trying to look years younger than I do. IT'S MY OWN VANITY! Reader, I'm not alone-I bet you've done the same, are doing the same or will do the same in your life. That being, doing something potentially harmful to your health or reputation to please the world around you.................at your expense. Many times there may not be any repurcussions. But, boy, when there are..............look out! There will be eventually. Trying to impress the wrong person for attention they will never give you. Wearing something, or wearing not enough of something to attract attention, that makes you look ridiculous. Taking a supplement that ruins your health for a time (been there......done that). Doing something physically dangerous or just writing or saying something...................where the world around you goes GONG! GET OFF OF THE STAGE! (I'm old enough to remember the hit 70's and 80' show THE GONG SHOW!) In laymen's terms..............trying to impress a world that will burn up one day when God comes back to set things right. Trying to impress people who never saw you as their 'slice of bread.' Trying to impress people who see you as their 'slice of bread' but will be on to the next 'newer slice of bread' as they fill their world with another new idol. Or trying to impress people who hold you in esteem yet will get old as you will and will be too feeble to remember why it all mattered in the first place................then they, you will die and it ALL WON'T MEAN ANY THING AFTERWARD! Then, there will be a whole new set of people in the world who never knew you existed and will be there to start the banal cycle all over again. Sound encouraging right? Of course not! What it is, reader, is a wake up call to live within your means. Yes, do things to improve yourself! There is nothing wrong with that! But, do it to be the best you. Do it with what I've just now dubbed "YOU COMPASSION" and not for a world around you that is so uncaring and fleeting. Do it with a sound judgement where the effort you are making has knowledge that nothing of this world matters in the end. LOVE YOURSELF NOW.......IN ALL YOUR FAULTS AND FLAWS................FOR ARE THEY REALLY FAULTS OR FLAWS IF EVERYONE HAS EM.' IT'S THEN WE SHOULD CALL EM' COMMONALITIES! BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY ALL THEY ARE! Now, if you'll excuse me I'm on my way to get a hardy cortisone shot! Till' next time! Your Sincerest Idiot