” The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” E.E. Cummings
I’m not your savior
I’m not an angel
I’m not the keeper of your secrets
I’m not your doormat
I’m not the Berlin Wall
I’m not Mount Kilimanjaro
I’m not a mystery novel
I’m not a horror story
I’m not a superhero
I’m not a brittle cushion
I’m not weak
I’m not the bad guy
I’m not the man
I’m not the driver of your bus
I am to be respected
I am to be treated with dignity
I am to be me
Categories: identity, Leadership, mental health, Poetry, Psychology, society, women
psychologistmimi 
Sadly The Truth is
If i AM to Be Me
Honest And True to
Myself As the World Stands
And Falls Today i Surely Cannot
(Particularly Where i Live Today)
Expect Rationally
To Be Treated
With Dignity
And Respect
in A World Currently
Like This However What i Can
And Will Do As An Individual
True to me is Treat Myself
With Dignity And Respect
No Matter How
Differently
The World
Now Will See of me
And Do to me Short
of Any Real Harm Now
It’s Truly Impossible to
Change Our Worlds And
The World At Large Eventually
Unless We aRe Truly Strong Enough
To be the Fool in Eyes of Others Different and Persevere
Granted i Surely Won’t Be one Asking For Volunteers…
And i Surely Understand The Reality of it is That this
Is Almost
Impossible
To Do As A Social
Animal Human Being
Unless One is Financially
Independent And Not Slave to
Anyone Else for Financial Security
With Enough Core Love From At least
one or A Few Others to Survive As Human-Kind True
Otherwise
Most Folks
Will Fall
And Sadly
Become More
Villain Than Hero to Themselves…
Or Conform of Course And Survive
As Less Than True to Their Authentic Self…
When i Expect Dignity and Respect From Others
Is When i More Often Respond to Harm With Harm…
(Yep, Ask Chris Rock About Turning The Other Cheek,
Bullied in Childhood That Way too Refusing
to Fall in
Adulthood
That Way)
Giving Up Those
Expectations
Hard indeed
Yet The Rewards
Do Come From Within
Inhaling Peace Exhaling LoVE Enough Now…
Of Course Only in my Individual View of Existence..:)
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I AM me. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get me what I want to simply BE me. They want something else, and I have no energy to provide it to them.
It’s not enough to write books as well as you can – you also have to become a performing monkey to sell them. I haz no energy for performing.
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Yes! Yes! Yes!
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