If You...
"If you don't want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if my beliefs are different from your's, at least pause before you set out to correct them.
Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than your's, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do.
Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be.
I do not for the moment at least as you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.
If you allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions then you open yourself up to the possibility that some day theseways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear as right - for me.
To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my wayz as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for seeming waywardness.
And one day, perhaps in trying to understand me, you might come to prize my differences and far from seeking to change me, might perserve and even cherish those differences.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, your colleague. But whatever our relation, this I know:
You and I are fundamentally different and both of us have to march to our own drummer." ~Unknown~
The above quote states how I feel. I'm so tired of people judging me and trying to change me. I just want to be left the way I am. I just want to be me and I'm sorry if that is not what you want from me, but last time I checked it wasn't your choice. I want to be encouraged for the good I do and not torn down because I'm not the mirror image of someone else! I just want to be accepted and NOT judged..guess that's a lot to ask though...
Or if my beliefs are different from your's, at least pause before you set out to correct them.
Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than your's, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do.
Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be.
I do not for the moment at least as you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.
If you allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions then you open yourself up to the possibility that some day theseways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear as right - for me.
To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my wayz as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for seeming waywardness.
And one day, perhaps in trying to understand me, you might come to prize my differences and far from seeking to change me, might perserve and even cherish those differences.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, your colleague. But whatever our relation, this I know:
You and I are fundamentally different and both of us have to march to our own drummer." ~Unknown~
The above quote states how I feel. I'm so tired of people judging me and trying to change me. I just want to be left the way I am. I just want to be me and I'm sorry if that is not what you want from me, but last time I checked it wasn't your choice. I want to be encouraged for the good I do and not torn down because I'm not the mirror image of someone else! I just want to be accepted and NOT judged..guess that's a lot to ask though...