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Face-to-Face
Copyright 2002 by Melinda Edison.
He taught me many things. One of the biggest is that I am rude.
Funny, I never thought I was a rude person, I thought that label belonged to people who cut you off in traffic, people that let a door shut in your face, people who give the waitstaff a hard time, people who KNOWINGLY did stoopid things.
I know I am strong of conviction. I take stands on subjects. I try to be authentic. And I will take a hit, if necessary, if my ideas conflict with others. I try to stay open and if your argument is meaningful enough and logic enough you may be able to sway me to believing like you do. Mostly you won’t though.
I have a friend who is a chameleon. He is amazing to watch. Put him into any situation and he becomes the people around him. I see that as him being wishy-washy, trying to be liked by all (no one is liked by everyone), and him desiring no conflict. People THINK they know him, but they don’t. I am not even sure that I know him. But whenever I catch him acting like me I call him on it.
Maybe I am rude.
Maybe we both need to move to the center, need to sandpaper off our rough edges. Then again, fuck that idea. We are what we are. The uniqueness of your personality is what makes you…you. Right?
And my friend the chameleon tells me that I am like a young girl with a wise-old Buddah stuck in her brain, on ocassion something brilliant comes out, but then again he has to tread through a lot of shit to get to the good stuff.
