~Different Drummers~
"If I do not want what you want,
please try not to tell me that
my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you,
at least pause before you correct
my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours,
or more, given the same circumstances,
try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act,
in the manner of your design for action,
let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least,
ask you to understand me.
That will come only when you are willing
to give up changing me into a
copy of you.
I may be your spouse, your parent,
your offspring, or your friend.
If you allow me any of my own wants,
or beliefs, or actions, then you open your-self,
so that someday these
wants of mine
might not seem so wrong,
and might finally appear to you as
right - for me.
To put up with me is the first step in understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you,
but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed
with me for my seeming
waywardness.
And in understanding me you might come
to prize my differences from you,
and far from seeking to change me,
preserve and even nurture
those differences."
~Author Unknown~
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