Dear First Initial, Middle Initial, and Last Initial,

You are not the person you think you are. You're as vain and shallow as the people you try to stand against, and you're even more foolish. Would you like to know why? Because you've never had a thought in your head that wasn't put there by someone else, and you're too stupid to even know it. Every person you've ever met has told you that you're special, that you know things that no one else does, that you've got such a unique take on the world and all the things that make it work, and when we come right down to it you're the same brand of mediocre everyone else is, you just don't know it.

I think it might be good that you don't know this. There's so much about this world that you have no idea about, but you think you do because you read books and travel around. This world that drives you so mad, this world that makes you shout and twitch and shake with frustration is made up of billions of people just like you, and everything you hate about them lives and breathes and thrives in you. I can see right down into the depths of your soul, and I can see where its rotting. There might still be time to cut out the things about you that are failing, but I think you're too lazy and too stupid to even try.

I hope your next salvation is clever enough to turn a blind eye to your shortcomings, because being able to see them as I do makes you even more repellent than you were from the outset. You are not more than your circumstance. You are exactly as you are perceived. You are as boring and mediocre as the people you turn away from, and the layers you wrap yourself in, pretending to have depth and interest, are just different shades of the same boring color.

~L



"He's a really good-looking guy, and I thought he was really cheesy at first-"
"Trust your instincts."
"Sometimes people are layered like that...There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface."
"And sometimes there's a third even deeper layer that's the same as whats on the top surface... like a pie!"