Its easy to mistake heartfelt smiles for just being polite
Hard to make ready the words to not seem contrived
We assume the worst and we get what we assume
My heart is beating and has not gone cold you fools!
Formalities of kindness giving birth to apathy.
Remnants of our past bind us in fear
They halt our progress, leave us frail and week in spirit
Foolish people wish for things they are mortally afraid of
So true is it to want the things that seem so unattainable
Break down the walls, crash through the threshold of your humanity!
Heath Dimsdle
Understanding Who I Am...
- Heath
- Mesquite, TX, United States
- "If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view. Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly. Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you. I may be your spouse, your parent, your offsping, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right, for me. To put up with me is the 1st step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences"
1 comment:
you know - i get burnt often...but i'd rather not assume the worst. and i hate it when others do. it is so hurtful when people assume you meant to upset or hurt them, instead of trusting that you love them and whatever you said or did was just an unintentional mistake
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