Category Archives: Love
Brain Dump: Projection, honesty and understanding that no one is a mind reader.
We all do it; we all project what we want, what we desire, what we hope, sending it out into the ether, the universe, or Twitter. Usually, and less obvious to our best selves, we project it upon others. I am guilty of it as well – though I am still struggling with the word “guilty” as the best description. Guilty makes it sound like it all needs to go away… and I am not so sure that’s the case.
This is a post, an admission, a missive long in the making. I have concentrated many experiences and conversations into this blog. Mostly based on my need to understand where I was both coming from and wanted to go. I have had the pleasure and privilege to meet some amazing people lately and I was running into similar conversations about relationships, connections, and idealized, fantastic expectations. They had to be based in something, so I started looking at how I talked to or about people in my life.
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#NaPoWriMo :: A Second Look
An apology has changed my view,
if only slightly.
The pain still exists.
An apology, given freely.
Warranted, necessary, appropriate.
Required. Owed. Due.
Yet, unsolicited.
The pain still exists.
It is warranted, necessary, and appropriate to use it, grow with it, not shrink away.
An idea that humane, that human, that personal;
given freely.
