We Look Past Each Other

I initially wrote this post in 2015, but unfortunately, it still resonates deeply.

This is stuff I think/worry about all the time. In the past couple of weeks, it’s felt to me like (a) I get less and less personal e-mails, (b) I get told to do more stuff at work as opposed to being able to chime in on directions of ideas, and © my in-laws are a total train wreck right now and I have some ideas to help (because I’ve been through stuff with my own family) but I always get the ol’ “You don’t understand” from that side. So, I go through a lot of pockets of time where I think “Damn, no one listens to me” or “Damn, no one understands me.”

These are dangerous ways to feel, because you leave yourself open to putting yourself on the cross as well — “Oh My God, No One Understands Me!” The true fact of the matter is that no one really understands anyone else, even their family and their spouse. We’re all just faking it ’till we make it to some extent.

Here’s an article on that. It’s long, but good. Think about this part to start:

And yet no one is entirely unknowable either. In fact, some of us are actually easier to understand than others. These people seem to express themselves in ways…