January 11, 2005
The Best Advice I've Ever Heard
The Best Advice I've Ever Heard
I just caught the KING OF THE HILL episode titled "Dang Ol' Love", the one where the Arlen stud Boomhauer falls in love. At the end of the episode Bill, the town loser is sitting on the hood of Boomhaur's car, drinking beer, and he offers our hero the following advice.
"I know how tough it is for you right now, curled up lying in your own emotional vomit. You're in hell now, Boomhauer, and the only way out is through a long dark tunnel. And you're afraid to go in because there's a train coming at you, carrying a boxcar full of heartbreak. Well, let me tell you something: All you can do is let it hit you, and then try to find your legs. I know. I've taken that hit more times than I can remember. Look at me, Boomhauer. I'm fat, and I'm old, and every day I'm just going to wake up fatter and older. Yet somehow I manage to drag this fat old bald bastard out into the alley every day. I'm out there, digging holes, falling into them, climbing out, trying again. And tomorrow I'm going to hang outside at a ladies' prison, and the first thing those lady cons are going to see after twenty years is me. Will I get one? Experience says no. Will I be out there next month? If I'm alive, you'd better believe it. You've got to get up off that cannon bed, slip into a tight T-shirt, wash off some of that cologne, and get yourself out of that tunnel and into some strange woman's bed!"
And that's how you (I) can get though it, every damn day.
Posted by Alex Zander at January 11, 2005 05:04 PM