Exploit

My answering machine was being hounded by messages that went something long the lines of "Michelle, this is Dr. So & Whoever, you haven't been here forever. You might be dying, so come."

Well, no it didn't exactly go like that, but more or less.

So, I go and the first question she asked (the same one she's been asking since I was like tweleve) "Is there a possibility that you could be pregnant?" and I said "Not unless my name is Mary and the baby is Jesus." She didn't like that.

Anyway, so turns out there is nothing really wrong with me, she thinks I should've worn my cast longer and have taken a leave of absence from work, but whatever.

This is where the exploitation comes into play. We're sitting there and she starts asking me about some health things that I dealt with growing up and she says "I know you're moving to Florida in a few months and I have a friend out there who runs this charity, and she's looking for young people with experience in dealing with these kind of topics."

Now, I want to educate people on both of these subjects and because they're things I have gone through and let shape me, I'm passionate about them, but sometimes I feel by talking openly about them I am exploiting them and taking away their value.

Like when a celebirity has a TV spot and talks about how they were beaten as children or have some kind of illness, maybe, they are just being active for a cause, but they also know that whatever they say is either going to help CD sales or boost their season's ratings. I might not have a career that this is going to help, but these are still things that are very important to me and that I don't want to take anything away from.

Yeah, I know this whole entry was cryptic and I am overanalyzing things. I still want your thoughts.