The most basic of all human needs is the need to
understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to
them. [Ralph G. Nichols]
My day yesterday went from
disappointed to disgusted. In myself and with myself, respectively. Though I
don’t think respect was anywhere in the equation…
When I have a “meltdown” all
I seem to hear is everyone telling me how I should
feel and what I should DO [and worse
yet, what I should have done] when
really all I want is someone to NOT run away from my melting down self.
Had someone taken the time to
really listen, as I am DOing through my writing this morning, that someone
would have learned I know very well what I should have done and that I chose
NOT to DO it BEcause it is just NOT in my nature anymore to BE a
bitch-on-wheels.
Is it so much to BE a little
kinder?! To ask how I am and then LISTEN when I tell you?!
In place of that I heard
plenty about how I should allow for all sorts of things round so many corners
that I canNOT possibly see no matter how closely I look.
It might BE elusive, but
there is Gratitude in here. I promise you.
I love you, Currie
3 comments:
'Should' is a word that would be better erased from the english language. I hope you are feeling better today.
Like the art!!! Hope your days are going better from here on out...
Not quite sure what happened, but stick to your guns on NOT being a bitch-on-wheels!! ;)
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