Ladies..Oprah is not just -like- you....

March 15, 2007 - Thursday

Oprah Ladies..Oprah is not just -like- you....She is not your friend either.You watch her show and gaze at her as if she were the second coming but she'd pass you like a freight train on the street if she saw you. I suppose I stopped watching her show when she preached to me one too many times, that I should "find my inner self". That she's only the person she is today because she made time to be her own person and work on herself. She took the time because she deserves the time. Well, let me hit you with a big news bulletin Oprah. Most of us don't have time to work on anything except brushing our teeth before we drop into bed at night. We don't have time to converse with authors or celebrities.Deepak Chopra doesn't hang out in my neighborhood. There's no self proclaimed guru sitting on my sofa helping me to experience "my genuine self". Now if that same guru wants to follow me into my laundry room and fold some towels while we discuss ways for me to get in touch with my warm fuzzy side then I say bring it on. Look, I appreciate that Oprah spends the better part of her day running an empire. I too have an empire to run. My empire consists of a single parent home, a full time job, a pile of bills and a 6 year old. I manage everything by myself and do it wearing lipstick. I'm amazing and unlike Oprah's Harpo organization I am a one woman organization. Oprah is not just like me but I am more like Oprah than she could ever imagine.