People
Sometimes you meet people who are so like you it affirms everything about you. People who just get you, even those things that you are insecure and self conscious about, they are the same and they get it and love you anyway. It’s total awesomeness. :-)
Other times you meet people who are like you, or at least you perceive them to be like you, yet they are the same as you in ways that you are self conscious or insecure about and it makes you even more self conscious and insecure to be around them. You want to push them out of your life, but that makes you feel worse because you don’t want anyone pushing you out of their life for the same reason. Your similarities become a divider rather than a bond.
I find this very odd. The same quality in one person can be affirming, but dividing when someone else does it. I doesn’t seem to make much sense to me, but that the way it seems to be!
I’m very lucky in that I have a number of people in my life who are in the 1st category. It doesn’t matter what we do, just being with them makes me happy! These are people who have changed my life. People who I’d fight for to keep them in my life. I hope that I’m in the 1st category for them too!
