27th
Frustrated
Dear metal gods,
my roommate is being completely unreasonable. Her boyfriend is over every weekend, but I’m not allowed to have guests…ever (I had my girlfriend stay over one night and she totally flipped out on us the next day). Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind that her boyfriend is here, I just want to have the same privilege. What should I do?
—frustrated
Dear Frustrated,
You sound like a sweet, unassuming, reasonable young man, and that is precisely your problem.
That, along with the fact that it is so easy for you mortals to assume everyone else is doing you wrong — she does this, he doesn’t do that… blah, blah, blah, that’s why my life isn’t exactly as I expected it to be blah, blah, blah… if you could only hear the constant drone of blame and complaints that we Metal Gods have to endure!
But alas, under our studded exterior we Metal Gods are a sympathetic kind so we will help you.
Here it is: your problem is not your roomate, your problem is you.
You must look inside yourself and determine why you think it’s ok for this person to treat you this way. Why is it ok with you that someone shackel your life with such demeaning rules and regulations?
Are you not worthy of the same privileges as she? Is your life and happiness in some way less important? Are you here merely to fill space?
Put another way, you need to grow a pair and stick up for yourself! You were not born into this life for the likes of her to wipe her feet on.
Once you respect and value yourself others will follow in your example and the problem will be solved by evolving yourself, not by trying to change another.
Your prescription from the Metal Gods is as follows:
Every morning when you wake and every evening before you pass out you need to look in the mirror, lock eyes with yourself and repeat the following affirmation of the Metal God Lita Ford from her song, “Kiss of Death”:
“I have no mercy, I tell no lies, I kiss the stranger and then watch them die”
WWMGD
