Your Responsibility

Perhaps you want to be dangling on a final thread of giving up. Maybe you want acknowledgement from others, for how hard it is for you. But that does not exist; there is no reward for placing yourself on the edge, so close to giving up, and then changing your mind.

These are all monetary values you’ve made up in your head. No one can see the intricacies of how hard that was for you. No one can look you in the eyes and share that understanding of all that you went through.

And how brilliant it is that we get to feel such complicated things. You can’t make these things up. You can’t create a feeling that you’ve never had. You can combine feelings if you’d like to. But no one can, out of thin air, create the complexity of what we call feeling.