19 April 2008

April #20

Have I given up tough skin
in order to be a nice person?
I care too much
about certain other people
and should just shrug them off.
Perhaps
in my search for treating others
as I would be treated,
I have become vulnerable,
far too worried about self-image.
I am paralyzed with thoughts
of who is friends with whom,
and why not me -
worriment
why they don't like me?
What could I have done?
 When I used to shrug off these thoughts
with a simple social finger.
I feel that yes,
it is tied to wanting to please everyone
to treating them all kindly.
There is more than that
but the relationship
is definite. 

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