What is “Being
American”?
There are so
many different perspectives
Which one do
we listen to?
“Being
American” is drinking bad beer at a tailgate before a football game
“Being
American” is making a bracket and watching March Madness
“Being
American” is putting down money against our favorite team because we know they are
going to lose
“Being
American” is watching a marching band, thinking “That looks cool….moving on….where’s
the hot guy two rows down?”
“Being American” is looking up to an athlete
when you’re a kid, when only years later you find out your hero was using
“Being
American” is getting let down because life doesn’t happen fast enough
“Being
American” is getting let down because you feel as though each day moves slower and
slower and it appears as though you’re
the only single person in the room even though statics show people are getting
married at an older age each year
“Being
American” is okcupid, Christian mingle, plenty of fish, and you guessed it
eharomony
“Being
American” is facebook, twitter, tumblr, youtube: anything to get your face out there and your
feelings out of your head so you don’t have to go to a psychiatrist like every
other person in America to obtain drugs that make you feel “normal”
“Being
American” is taking Xanex, Cymbalta, Prozac, Wellbutrin, Zoloft, Lunesta,
Melatonin, Ambian, Yaz, Lybrel, Ortho Tri-Cyclen, imperial elixir – male vitality,
natural factors sexual vitality for men, and magna RX
Are you
laughing? If you’re not, it’s because you’re just “Being American” and taking
yourself too seriously
“Being
American” is being able to ride down the street on my bike and not being afraid
to get shot
“Being
American” is not being able to ride down the street on my bike because I might
look like a fag and get shot
“Being
American” is going to Pride in Houston, TX on a hot, sunny, summer day
“Being
American” is marching, walking, jogging, dancing, leaping, standing, and
screaming for what I believe in
“Being
American” is going to your High School Prom with your High School Sweet Heart
that you actually broke up with a week before prom ,true story, (I broke up
with him) and still having a fantastic time
“Being
American” is having seen every Disney Movie ever made and loving every one of
them, while at the same time seeing porn before your balls have even dropped
“Being
American” is going to your cousins choir concert, thinking “Dear God can someone
just shoot me?! Oh hey now they’re singing a cool mash up I think I’ll stay.”
“Being
American” is listening to Lady Gaga, Beyonce, John Fogerty, the Backstreet Boy,
N,Sync, Miranda Lambert, George Straight, Fleetwood Mac, Imagine Dragons, Daft
Punk, Miley Cyrus, Billie Holliday, and Frank Sinatra
“Being
American” is wanting to light up the world with Jesus because you feel as
though the world is filled with darkness, because it is, but you probably are
filled with the darkness too.
“Being
American” is knowing that on September 11th someone actually got
in. They got inside America and we were
scared shitless of what was to come.
“Being
American” is watching your friends, brothers, sisters, lovers, husbands, wives,
mothers, fathers, go off to war to fight for something that not everyone in
American even believes in, but they care that much about “Being American” to do
it and not have any regrets when they come home because they know they did
right by “Being American”
“Being
American” is sweat and blood; tears and faith; laugher and smiles; black and white;
Asian and Hispanic; Cuban and Czech; the rich, middle class, and the poor
“Being
American” takes all kinds
“Being
American” will only stop if we do
Don’t stop
Don’t you
ever stop; “Being American”
