Mixed Messages and Contradictions
As Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) approaches (starting tonight), all kinds of "mental clean-up" decisions get made. There’s no better time, than now, to clear upsets and "make nice."
When others don’t know what they want, it’s better to give them space and not get caught up in their vicissitudes of the moment. We all need to see the light sooner or later. But, everyone’s light won’t go on at the same time. Some lights flicker, others act as motion-detectors. Many need new bulbs.
Often, we can only count on our own power source. When others send mixed messages, we need to think about moving on, however hard that is to do, and as this poem hints:
Contradiction
Contradiction
An affliction
One thing said, another done
One thing thought, another wanted
You don’t see, others can
You don’t know, others will
Real you wanting to get out
Real you wanting to shout
Needing it all
Has you stall
Going against the tide
Not about pride
A bigger picture is clear
Not in touch with what is dear
Self matters
But so do others
Self knows
Frustration grows
Back and forth
Forth and back
Knowing what’s right
But keeping up the fight
Others see
Others change
Fair exchange
Or so you’d think…
Always carry your own flashlight as back-up, and you won’t be caught in the dark. Others’ power surges shouldn’t flatten your batteries…
