She said, “Girl, that guy had you figured out and wrapped up with a bow in 20 seconds. That must have been scary.”
“No, it was thrilling and so much fun. I kept saying things like ‘That’s so smart,’ and ‘Whoa, that’s cool.’ It was like being on an equal playing field with someone you can learn a lot from.”
Then I told Duncan about the same thing. To him I added, “He reminded me of you—his voice patterns, the way he spoke to me. It was distracting. I had to stop him to tell him that he reminded me of a dear friend from college.”
“I thought that was just a tumor I have,” Duncan said sweetly.
“Maybe he has a tumor, too.” I threw back.
“No seriously, it’s like he understood that my heart and head are transparent. He helped me when I didn’t know what I meant.”
“That’s good,” Duncan told me. “I’ve seen people fight your lack of guile for the longest time and get really frustrated trying to find a way to change it—or to prove it isn’t so.”
“Hey,” I said, “If they thought they were frustrated, imagine how frustrated I was.”
Sometimes its so hard to be myself, but once in a million times it’s easy.
Easy and fun to be myself. Imagine that.
−me strauss Letting me be
2 comments:
I'm just smiling with delight. :-)
Hi Tree,
Your comment makes me giggle.
I can picture you smiling. I wondered whether you would hear what I was writing. I guess you did. How could you not?
smiles right back,
Liz
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