I value the qualities of a person much more than those of their vessel. I am not my body. I know a brilliant man, a dear friend of mine, who is paralyzed from the pectorals down. He is no cripple.
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I deem that the most important thing to know about me as I am now is that, for the last year or so, I have been consciously discovering and re-defining who I am, my perspective, and my understanding of the nature of existence. I began soon after I returned to #########; I halted the momentum that had been driving me for more than a decade, and I found myself and have been evolving since. I often feel out of place amongst others because of the broadness and openness of my perspective and my ability and desire to express it. When I hear a person relating how angry they are at something, or speaking in a derogatorily judgmental manner of another, I find myself unable to empathize. As empathetic as I am, I find that I do not understand cruelty or indifference. It baffled me as a child, as well.
I am, absolutely, an open book. I guard my words for the sake of others, depending on the situation, but there is nothing that I am aware of having an unwillingness to discuss. When interacting with someone, I want, above all, for them to know just who I am without lies or pretense.
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