FAMILIES. FRIENDS. FOES.
I accept you the way you present yourself to me. I’ve done that my whole life and I’m not changing to engage in the hide and seek of your real self games you play.
Don’t call me naive when you intentionally withhold your real self from view. I’m not going to try to figure you out, I’ve not the time.
I only figure me out, from there I work to change the world for the better – by changing me – not into your likeness or not into what you deem is my place in the world, not as your follower or fan, as you like to claim to others who don’t know your game, but for me, so the worlds I live, work and play in can be safer more enlightening places and spaces in which to survive and thrive.
I accept everybody the same way.
Until you terrorize my family, steal my house and car or burn my city down – then you’re a terrorist, which has a category all its own – in my mind.
FAMILIES. FRIENDS. FOES.