So how are you gonna give me my years back? I. Want. To. Know. They weren’t yours to take. You didn’t have the rights to them. They were mine gifted to me by God. I know you probably thought you were god . . . well maybe just God’s gift to someone . . . but guess what? You weren’t. And you’re still not. So now tell me how you’re going to give me back what you stole.
Sure I played a part in your thievery. In your deception. Yeah I may have been gullible. Naive even. Some may even say I gave away my years. My time. My energy. My heart. And they’d be right. I gave that all to you. Freely. Without qualms or second thoughts. That’s sorta what love and commitment looks like.
But your idea of love and commitment resembled a cancelled TV series. You were really into a wonderful TV show that aired for years and years. Then, out of nowhere, you lost interest. Why? Because you found another show that caught your eye. Then you couldn’t decide between the two shows because they were scheduled to air on the same days AND at the same time. So you decided to flip between them. Then eventually the new show started to take precedence over the other. So what option did you have? Forsake the old show for the new one? Or continue flip back and forth between channels?
So you played this ping pong game for a while. And those two shows . . . they had no idea that the viewer was playing ping pong. So you decided to keep on keeping on, half stepping, never fully committing to one or the other of the shows anymore. Then what do you know? The ratings for the original show, the one that gave loyal programming for years and years, finally found out that its viewership was down. And it wasn’t because the original show wasn’t interesting or not up to par anymore. It was because the viewer decided to stay on the other channel a wee bit too long and put way too much money into the cable bill to subscribe to the new channel . . . with the new show.
But here’s the clincher . . . that very loyal actress who showed up every day and worked her butt off to give her best performances, who lost sleep and time and money and energy preparing for the role of her lifetime, who waited each day for feedback from viewership poles, who just knew that the viewer was tuned all the way into her show and her show alone . . . that REALLY faithful to the bone, hopeful actress who thought she would be on the original show till death does she part . . . she quit.
