Will You Understand?

 

 

I came across this quote and realized it spoke right to my heart.

So many times I have sat in silence around others; smiling politely at the appropriate times, but knowing that the real reason I am so quiet isn't because I have nothing to say; but just afraid if I say what I am really thinking; people will totally misunderstand the position I'm coming from, the true meaning of my thoughts and words.

Too many times in the past I have spoken my truth; and those who were listening....just stopped listening because they didn't like or perhaps didn't agree with my point of view; so I became the "misunderstood outcast" with a few; and that hurt has stayed with me....I don't want to feel it again.

I am smart, quick witted, funny, serious, opinionated and having an enormous loving heart....but a lot of people just don't understand me.  Even my parents didn't understand me as I was growing up.  My mom would often laugh and say that she wondered if they gave her the right baby from the hospital nursery; because I was so different from them.

I am ME....just me.