Navtiveson I do not live in the middle of Times Square....I live on a beautiful block with only one neighbor with woods and grass I have a garden with veggies & flowers....I have a lawn and even a driveway....and I love GOOD food...not junk (except when I'm PMS) and I workout and an a size 6....I am almost NEVER sick and WHEN I am it is a faction of what someone else experiences....

If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours...or even more...given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

Or yet, if I act....or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not...for the moment at least...ask you to understand me....That will come ONLY when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally apear to you as right....FOR ME. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for YOU...but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understading me you might come to prize my differences from you, and far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.

Peace be with you.



[This message has been edited by BRO (edited 22 December 1999).]