2010 the Year for being Slightly Odd in a Baldrick kind of fashion ~~~
Ever watched Blackadder?
I love Baldrick. That cute, dirty, odd, ugly little man whose pearls of wisdom are like manure to the cynical flowers that Blackadder himself strews across the pathway of the script.
Ben Elton is a genius creating these characters who have come down through the centuries from being a lowly prince with no backbone, no great strengths or interests, to the arrogant Lord Blackadder, then the manservant to Prince George and finally to the Major in the British Army finding fault with the wonderful oxy-moron that is Army Intelligence.
This is my Blackadder year.
The one where people who have become friends in the more recent years of my life have suddenly resigned as my friends. Now I am the first to admit I am an outspoken and occasionally annoying mid-life Ranga with attitude when I choose to use it. These are the people who I have bent over backwards, sidewards and upside down to help, and taken the high moral ground of not expecting thanks. The phrase "to be giving, and forget the gift" as it says in the CWA Creed.
Still, these negative people come into our lives to be an example. A shining, shining example. Of what NOT to do. Of how NOT to act toward other people. Of just how miserable and introverted some people can be in their lives.
What else are they there for?
To show us once again how to value our true friends, to believe in the people who believe in us.
And you know what else?
They drive me onwards and upwards to achieve what they never will - to be happy, to have friends, and above all - to .......
you guessed it..........
Love it!
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