The Sword of Damocles
Or
The Bruce Jenner Story
This is a classic story of the grass is always greener on the other guys lawn. For those of you not up on your 4th century history the “Sword of Damocles” or The Bruce Jenner Story is about looking at only the wealth, privilege or gender of someone without seeing the pressure and the peril that they live with. Damocles was an obsequious worker in the court of Dionysius, a fourth century BC tyrant. Damocles thought that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. So Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so Damocles could taste first hand that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held where Damocles really enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging directly above his head by a single horse-hair. Immediately, he lost all taste for the lifestyle and asked to go back to his old job, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate. Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the unseen constant pressure in which a great man or woman lives.
Bruce Jenner; he is convinced that being a woman would be a much better life for him and his kids. What??? To prove his point he is going to cut off his penis then get breasts implants in order to complete his transformation into womanhood. My question to Bruce would be have you looked in the mirror recently? He is one ugly woman so being pretty and getting laid is out of the question. Then why on God’s green Earth does he want to become a woman? He is either very stupid or has one hell of a drug / mental disorder that no one is talking about. At least Damocles could change his mind and go back to his old life. Bruce is one cut away from the no going back zone. To me this is a real mental disorder. OK he feels like a woman that’s fine but taking it to that extreme is crazy. America loves this shit now he has a TV special where he will be introduced as Belinda Jenner….. To me all of this is just a scream for attention; look at me I am a woman and I am cutting off my penis. I think living with the Kardashian’s has pushed Bruce over the crazy cliffs and he is free falling into a sea of failure. In the end Bruce may or may not be a happier person as a woman only he/she will know the truth. My guess is that once the attention goes away Belinda will look in the mirror and think what the fuck have I done!
“You see, the problem with having choices is that we become restless. We can't settle on what we already have or be satisfied with what we've got because we'll always be wondering about the next big thing. It’s called “the grass is always greener” syndrome. We think someone else is having a better time elsewhere. We make ourselves miserable by constantly thinking about the unknown in an endless quest to find happiness. We lie awake at night torturing ourselves over what we should do next, wondering if we're missing out on something big. We feel we’re wasting our lives if we’re not doing something more important.” That is a passage from http://tinybuddha.com/blog/why-the-grass-is-never-greener-and-how-to-be-happy-today/. Check out the link it is a good read and worth your time. It explains how to find happiness with what you already have and not by changing into someone you are not. I hope Bruce reads my blog before it’s too late. I know he is a big fan. Good luck Bruce and I hope you come to your senses and realize that changing your gender will not make you any happier than you are right now. Don't turn yourself into a joke you were an Olympic hero in 1976.