COMPARISONS
Comparisons, as they say, can crush
and crumble and humble a person -
that is, if we let
them happen to us.
But how can we not, when parents
and siblings, teachers and advertisers -
start to shout out comparisons at us?
Oh, it’s easy to
say, “Be yourself” -
but down deep the others really
don’t want us to be ourselves.
They want us to be remade in the
image and likeness they have
of us. They like to play God.
But ….
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019
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