The Hypocrite and the Fool

Listen up, kiddies, for one of BC's fables... what lesson will you learn?

Once upon a time there was a man named Hypocrite and a girl named Fool. Fool enjoyed spending time with Hypocrite. Fool knew her feelings for him were growing, so she did what she thought she had to do and told him. Fool told Hypocrite she liked him and that maybe she should stop spending time with him because she knew he wasn’t ready for anything serious, and neither was she really for that matter, but she was moving on from something else. Hypocrite told her that he liked her too, but wasn’t ready for anything because of the previous bad breakup. He told her he wanted to go with the flow and just see what happened with them since they were going to live very close to each other soon. Fool knew she had a problem trusting men, but she had known Hypocrite for over 6 years and thought that she could trust him. Hypocrite took her out, let her meet his friends, and spent time with her.

Fool believed him. She relished in the fact that maybe something could happen but she had to stop self-sabotaging herself with her weird trust issues and tendencies to push people away. Well… one day, Fool gets a message from Hypocrite saying, “Hey some things have happened the last few days that have changed my outlook with some things. I'm just going to be up front and tell you that I met a girl that I really really like and we have been hanging out lately. So the position this puts me in, is I don't want to mess things up with her. I'm going to be respectful and not try to play anybody and see where her and I go. This was very short notice, but I have to cancel those plans we had with you coming down. Sorry...”

Fool felt, well, foolish. She had betrayed herself by trying and being open to only find that he didn’t give a shit about her, and that what he told her before was true. “Guys can be monogamous, but it’s the fact that they don’t want just you.” How true you were Hypocrite… Touche’ cause you actually practice what you preach… So maybe he’s not a hypocrite after all, but Fool is still a fool.

            Moral of the story - Life's tough so get a helmet.