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If
I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me
that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before
you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is more than yours, or less, given the
same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more
weakly or strongly.
Or yet if I act in some way other than your design for
action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand
me. That will come only when you are willing to give up
changing me into a copy of you.
I may be your spouse, your employee, your child, your
parent, or your friend. If you will allow me any of my
own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you
open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might
not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as
right- for me.
To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that
you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for
my seeming waywardness.
And in understanding me, you might come to prize my
differences from you, and far from seeking to change
them, you might preserve and even nurture those
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