As great as my mom is, she forgot to tell me one very important lesson about life: there are people that will use you as a tool if you're not careful. That is the lesson. It's easy to understand, but darn hard to do in real life. Much like the stuff you learned back in high school, most of it is irrelevant until a few years later, until you're at uni or in the workforce. If, say, my mom taught me about this when I'm 6 years old or something, I'd go 'bugger it', and wouldn't even think about it until somebody actually uses me as a tool.

What is a tool? According to urbandictionary.com, a tool is one who lacks the capacityto know he is being used. A fool. A cretin.

If you think about it, avoiding to be a tool is a matter of wise decision. Sometimes you make that decision long before you realise that you're being used for her own good, sometimes seconds before and sometimes even months and years after you figured out that you're being used. It's not because you're a dumbass, it's because in general, people are morally fucked. Even the most honest of us enjoys the fact that they can tell others what to do and to gain complete control over them. Even the holiest of us, the prophets, the God-on-Earth used others for his own good or principle.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that religious people are tools. That's just harsh. And not entirely relevant according to what religion is. But let's not get into that.

Take an example, here's a girl with a whole bunch of 'friends' on Friendster and in real-life (Well, not really 'friends', per se, but more like Pokemon cards), and she somehow keeps track of all her Pokemon cards, and when the time comes, she draws the right card. Let's say she wants to go to the movies, but all her friends have watched the movie. Well, for example, let's say that this movie is the Simpsons, and everyone else but you and her watched the movie.

Yeap, you guessed it. No matter how pathetic, how fucked up, and how ridiculously ugly you are, she will ask you to go to the movies with her. Or when she's your boss, and she's asking you to work overtime so that she can go home and screw around with your best friend. Or when she wants you to call her mom to tell her that her daughter is not going out with her asshole ex-boyfriend. Congratulation, at least you're no longer inside a poke-ball now, huh?

Well, guess what? Once it's all done, you're going back inside, and not in a good way either. trust me, she has better pokemons. You're one of those redundant pokemons; i.e. NOT Charizard, not Mew. If you've been following my analogy so far, let's put it this way.

You = tool = the ugly, weak pokemons

most of us

Her 'best-friend'/Very handsome guy = Charizard

This is the enemy.

I guess you can tell by now that being tooled is not very fun at all. Even though it's as easy as saying 'Fuck off' to a girl. But when she's pleading, and begging you to help her, I guess you have no choice, right? I mean, you wouldn't say no to the one person you've been after in years, right? No. That is, unless you're a tool.

So the next time that hot girl comes up to you and ask you if you want to go the movies with her, remember my Pokemon card analogy and just say NO.