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Originally Posted by bonne-maman
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you are one of those pretty, put-together girls that I have been scared of all my life! You make my goddmaned day when you say shit like this!
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Whoa!
Considering the vast interior of complicated shit-I've-got-to-fix*, I wonder if others have been misreading me this way and possibly, you know, shanking me unnecessarily for it?
<squeak> I almost hate to write this here because of the way it will undoubtedly sound disingenuous and ...well, oogy.
But, Bonney, I see you as a proud and prime authority on all those things I set out to do but never got around to for...laziness. Selfishness. In this way, you don't so much scare me, as humble me. That's hard pie to swallow, you know? I admit to having avoided you for it in the past. I didn't want to look at the part of myself I wasn't living up to.
I wonder how much all of us represent these kind of weird (and possibly erroneous) things to one another, and the work we do to overcome it so that we can finally enjoy each other's company?
*seriously, man. i am full up with it.
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