The Teasers

The following story was inspired by several people that many of you know. They are listed here. See if you can match the events in the story to the people listed. Keep in mind that some embellishment/literary license has been taken to make it all flow.  The names are not in order with the story.

Todd Reese, Dallin Brown, Marlin Brown, Kathy Shifflet, Peter Sundwall (the younger), Terence Brown, Rhen Brown, Elder Neff, Acacia Brown, Angela Brown, Robert Brown. Maybe you can fit one or more of these scenarios or know someone who can. Feel free to pass this around.

THE TEASERS

What if others teased you? How would that feel?

That would not be a very good deal.

Most people tease others because they are different from them,

But if you just take a positive approach you will find that most people are a gem.

Some people walk fast.

Some walk slow while those fast ones go past.

The fast ones might say “hey slow poke

You walk so slow it’s a joke”.

They think it is important to get somewhere fast.

They don’t even notice all the stuff they just passed.

They didn’t notice the blue bird on the limb of that tree

And how it took off flying high and free.

They were in such a hurry; they didn’t see the side walk’s crack.

They tripped and fell flat on their face with a smack.

Sometimes those without glasses tease those who do.

They call them four eyes but that doesn’t make much sense since no one has more than two.

I had a friend who was bigger than most.

Others called him fatty and said he ate too much toast.

He got a job playing football in the NFL.

Now he’s really doing quite well.

I had another friend who was not very tall,

In fact he was the shortest of all.

Some class mates made fun of him for being so small.

He became a jockey riding horses in races.

He has traveled the world racing in so many places.

I had a cousin who liked to dance.

There were those who called him Mr. Fancy pants.

He learned to dance so well he gets paid for what he does,

And guess what? He’s doing something he loves.

There was a girl down the street who said she wanted to be a soldier.

Her mom laughed at her saying you’ll change your mind when you’re older.

She did not change her mind and instead learned to fly.

She’s in the air force now; look there she goes flying by.

When my dad was young he broke the same leg twice. As a result he walked with a limp.

A few pointed a finger and called out “hey there goes the gimp’.

With time and experience he grew very wise,

and through the ranks of respected government officials he did rise.

There was this girl at my school whose last name was Gorgonlazolings.

Some made fun of her name, but later they learned that was a royal linage from which had descended many kings.

There was another girl who was teased because she was never asked out on dates.

Now she is a newscaster on TV and has more money than any of those guys makes.

Some kids drove really nice cars to school and joked about those who had to walk.

Now that they are older they realize that cars don’t really matter and wish they hadn’t used that kind of talk.

There was one kid who thought he was better than the rest because he was the star on a sports team.

Actually he was really mean.

It’s really sad that later he got really sick.

Now his doctor is one of those on whom he used to pick.

I guess the lesson to be leaned is that we are less different and more the same.

We are all children of God and there is no reason to call anyone a name.