Understanding Me [A Goodreads Quote]

“People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

From The Journals of Kierkegaard

 

UNDERSTAND ME

 

Source: http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-and-try-to-understand-me-3/

You ask how am I doing but when I try to explain to how I feel, you quickly tell me well “others have it worst.”

I know very well that my life is not the most beaten down track in this endless race.

 However if you do not try to understand my emotional and mental composition , how can you know me.

How can you tell that I am not a great pretender, that my smiles are not staged to display a happiness that I do not feel.

Listen to me, listen to my words, watch my expressions

Learn to read me, to know when everything is “ok” and when circumstances are “great.”

Until then, I feel like you do not care to understand me and I am never understood and that is an uncomfortable place to occupy.

 

Try to understand me…