Are you like me?
Never really sure just how others take you
Do they really like you or just tolerate you?
When they laugh at your jokes
Are they being courteous or sincere?
Are you like me?
Giving those you meet the benefit of the doubt
Assigning a whole backstory to why they did what they did
Justification for treating you shabbily
Are you like me?
You dutifully take in the sorrows of others
Everyone’s therapist they can vent on
But can’t open up yourself
Either for fear the floodgate will never close
Or being thought of as weak
Or facing your own frailty
Are you like me?
Do you come undone?
At the thought of the pain and sorrow
That is being endured in the world
At any given moment
Are you like me?
Despite your emotional connection to the world
You’d rather stay home and read or watch a good movie
Despite your interest in the human condition
You’re trying desperately to be a zen master
Finally shutting up that interior monologue
Am I like you?
Do you like you?
Do I like me?
Are you like me?
Yup 🙂
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Much appreciated, my friend!
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Sounds like me! Very true about the interior monologue. Always finding an excuse not to be social.
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I knew I wasn’t alone and that I had to be in good company! 🙂
If I won the lottery I’d never leave the library in my mansion! 😉
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😆 I agree!
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Tapped a deep well here Erich. . . so many ripples of truth
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Thank you, my friend…I was definitely in an introspective mood 🙂
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You are most welcome
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