You Can't Always Get What You Want ... But You Get What You Need

I am sorry. Sorry I have been away so long.

Between work craziness, fundraising and baking for a charity, going to a Mets game, visiting family and general fatigue.... I just haven't felt up to writing. It's a tough life being a working, dating, running, family-loving man.

However, said recent family trip unlocked that elusive writing itch. Yay for blog time!

Nothing like surviving a family trip and then wanting to wanting to write about it.



The thing is: I do love my family. I was able to look at one family member and see that I shared the same nose. The very nose I don't like on myself - I saw on another, and liked it. It made me smile.

Other family members and old friends made me feel love that feels like a warm blanket. When you go home after some time has passed, it's comforting and yet odd. Everything can feel familiar and new at the same time.

Your parents will always want to do things for you that no one else in their right mind would want to. They will always love you and always say loving things. Usually... (wink!)

My father (in a quick, quiet moment) made me feel better about something that someone else made me feel bad about. Ironically, it was this very blog, and how I express myself so openly.

Only your family can see you for who you are at your base level and then cut you down at that very same base. And, in that very same day, only your family can pick you right back up again.

The lesson my father taught me, though is: you can't please everyone.

I liked it. I can't please everyone. It's a bit freeing. Screw the haters. I will take the lovers!

I will have my critics. I will have fans. (Forty-nine fans on Facebook as of this writing!!! Who wants to be number fifty??? Like I Am So Gay on Facebook today!!!)

SHAMELESS PLUG!!!!



Yet, it's hard to soak up the fact that not everyone can be happy by the things that I do. I am - despite all of the rumors on the gossip magazines - a good person. I didn't break up Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. I didn't even break up Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. I mean ... I did introduce her to that director and I did buy her a case of wine... but that is NOT my fault.



No, despite all the haters, I actually do good things. And I am pretty much always nice to people. So, what the hell? Why isn't what I do enough? Why is it NEVER enough? You can do a nice thing, but you better do another 10 minutes later, and another, and another. You must constantly go out of your way, and perform above and beyond. And yet - you still won't make everyone happy.

Because some people just aren't happy. And no matter what happens - they will never be happy. And I feel sorry for those people who get something but want something more.

Just enjoy the thing you have today. Bask in it. Enjoy the moment. And don't stress about the next.

Yep. You can't please everyone. And I am done trying.
But, thanks to Mick Jagger, I will get what I need.