We Mess Up

We can make a mess of things... With our crazy ideas and insatiable needs. We can focus on the big picture so much that we forget about the individual.

I struggle with that, with feeling that I've been forgotten and with forgetting to remember others. I think we all do. We forget that sometimes someone really needs to just hear "Thank you," or "I appreciate you." I think often we feel lost in the mess and that the only way to be heard is to scream. I know that I do. So we shout and struggle and sometimes people notice, but when they do, it's not the same. When we break, when things aren't all pretty. I've been there... But I still forget, I still mess up.

I also struggle with being the liberal advocate that my life is turning into sometimes. Spreading love and acceptance and berating those who don't seems weird to me. And honestly, I don't mean to be berating, but I bet it seems that way from the other side. I imagine that those I engage in debate with sometimes feel attacked, whether I mean it that way or not. It becomes hard again to separate the two sides. How do you say we should accept everyone without really accepting everyone? I imagine that isn't foreign to others either...

So what's the point? We forget that people are individuals. We forget to say thank you. We forget. We mess up. Now, how do we clean up?