Just Because It's You

[antianhedonia]

My friends are always trying to pick me apart and make excuses for things that I do - things that make them uncomfortable because of how unfamiliar they are. "You do this because of your nationality," "because you're an only child," "because you were raised as a middle child," "because of that thing that happened in high school." They can't let

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[i_id]

For a lot of people, I think, acceptance can only come through finding a why.

[wyliekat]

I share some of this feeling of being an odd duck, but it's not my friends who come up with rationalizations for it - it's me. I'm the thing that won't let me just be.

[spirited_grace]

Oh, how I hate to be marginalized because of a single aspect of my being!

Liked this. Thanks.

[rattsu]

Really cool!

Alas, I am exactly the other way around. My life is an eternal WHY?! but the trick is to stay away from the easy, given answers.

[momebie]

I find that, as someone who spends so much time in my own head going over my actions and motives, I really bristle at other peoples' definitions of me. But that is why Sartre is my boyfriend. ♥