Why is it so hard to meet people where they are?
It’s unrealistic to demand understanding and perfection from individuals…
People that are meaningfully different from ourselves
Although we can relate to each other on some levels,
We haven’t walked in each other’s shoes
And we haven’t lived each other’s lives
No matter how much we have wanted to.
Even empathy can’t give us that type of knowledge.
Our wanting and our longing and our understanding can only go so far.
Most times we have to navigate through the hurricanes and dust storms
And in the middle of the fuckery, if we’re lucky, we connect with someone in the midst of their storms
I have only wished and wrote and tried to live to be lucky and humble enough to do exactly that
for anyone who has crossed my path.
Because I believe in my heart that it’s not hard to meet people where they are at.
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