When I was a child, every year I grew older, I was a different person than I had been the year earlier. Starting in my teen years, I went through approximately 20 years of chronic pain. After surgery corrected the problem, my personality was very different as a person living without chronic pain.
I think it's common as we grow up, become adults and move away from each other, we cement the memory of a person in our minds and expect them to act a certain way. We also sometimes will treat that person as if they were the person they used to be. I've fallen into that rut with others as well as have had others treat me as if I'm someone I no longer know.
I want to give myself the gift of getting to know someone for who they are today.
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