Sometimes I have trouble telling where I end and you begin
No, wait, that’s you!
This funny little poem plays with the confusion inherent in having fuzzy personal boundaries. Codependency is a very popular topic these days. Sorting out what is your own business versus what is somebody else’s business can be a very difficult task. Fortunately, we live in the world of interdependence. So, I suppose that sorting out oneself from others would naturally present some difficulty. I cannot claim any great wisdom in regards to that fuzzy line between what is one’s own business and what is somebody else’s business. However, I think I’ve stumbled upon a fairly good cheat. If I focus on who I am and who I want to be, this seems to be a full-time job, leaving little time for messing around with other people’s business. Self-awareness and self-discovery is a lot of work. However, if we were able to achieve a decent level of self-awareness, then what do we bring into our relationships with other people becomes much clearer. Of course, it also helps a lot, if the other people that we are in relationship with know who they are and who they want to be as well. In the end, this probably boils down to the simple reality that minding other people’s business is just a roundabout way of avoiding dealing with what is truly our own business. Somehow, it seems so much more fun and/or easier to diagnose and fix other people’s problems! Unfortunately, I am the only one that can truly take care of my business, and if I don’t do it, then I can’t blame anybody else. Of course, if I just stick to blaming everybody else, I don’t have to deal with my own stuff. Is this just me, or is that you?!
