Herrington: Walking on Eggshells

What is it? What is it about us that forces us to move forward? We start out in one place and eventually move to another position, incrementally. We were relatively and reasonably assured, somehow lost our footing, got side-swiped or in some way thrown, scrambled, and then somehow managed to land here. And even that will change when the next rug is ripped out from under us. Isn’t there an end to this constant change, or is that the only thing that is constant, change?
What I see in modern conversation is the need to convert others to our way of thinking. We take each point of our trajectory, turn it into a dogma, make it the only possible pathway, and then use that as the hammer we have in our eternal search for a nail. What are we to do, just let others talk to us as if we are listening to them and allowing them to have their own truth? Yes, why not?
Interesting, and what kind of cheese is the moon made of then? It must be Swiss, because of the craters. What do you think? Oh, my God! Asking others what they think and then not correcting them! What a concept?
Have you ever met anyone who wants to tell you that you do not feel the way that you feel? No, you don’t. That is not how you feel. What? Yes, I do. No, let me analyze that for you…..Oh, no, you di-ent! I often run into people who are hell bent on not only putting me in a box, but then they want to stand on it too. Your way of thinking is built on what you have experienced, what you think, what you know, what you have read, what you have read…Me, too!
I want the freedom with others to simply talk and be heard uncensored. If love is conditioned on anything, it’s not unconditional….If it’s not unconditional, it’s fear…I don’t want to be in fear with others. Walking on eggshells is not freedom. When will she react? When will he blow up? When will I get the cold shoulder? When will she shut down? When will he go out and work on his hobby and avoid the difficult part of being in an emotional relationship that really requires emotional nakedness? When?

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