What draws me closer to you?
Or am I afraid to get too close?
What allows me to enjoy your being?
Or do I believe that I cannot afford such luxury?
Or that there are others more deserving of my time and attention?
Or that I cannot possibly enjoy your being when it is so different to my being, my beliefs and my values?
What encourages me to wish only good things for you?
Or do I believe that you can jolly well wish good things for yourself?
What persuades me to cease passing judgment on you?
Or do I believe that it is my business to?
And that, if I didn’t, why, you would spiral into moral decline or take advantage of me or act in ways that I do not approve of and ultimately, give me less and less reason to feel righteous about myself?
What compels me to listen to you with a wide open heart, with a mind willing to be changed, with a spirit basking in the wonder of your being?
Or am I too caught up in composing my response, or recalling my old arguments, or marshalling my defenses and launching my attack, ultimately seeking to prove you wrong or less or worse and me right and more and better?
What, in other words, my human being, convinces me that you and I are One?
Unmistakeably, unenhanceably, incorruptibly One?
Built of the same atoms and molecules as we are?
Spawned of the same cosmic dust?
Birthed by the One consciousness?
What?
One, Lucy
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