wrong you're and i'm too

i hmmhmm positively at the audiobook as the author reads her writing, striking a chord. i rewind the passage and replay it again and again, absorbing the weight of the thought.

today, i’m learning how to let you be wrong.

i try to discard the idea that if i just tried harder you would get where i’m coming from. it’s a fool’s errand. i can’t make you see the picture from my perspective (you’re way too short anyway). it’s better to accept the facts than to try to defeat the human condition.

my inner child is no match for solipsism.
and so i let myself off the hook.
and so i let you off the hook.

you and i can be wrong together.
we can attempt to share a thought and accept that we never could.
we can instead find joy in the overlapping.

i’m learning a lot these days, and getting more wrong than ever.