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The movie ‘Obsession’ is reminding me of the essay I wrote about noticing that people sometimes interact with what I call a strange collectively imagined, shape-shifting, shadow version of me that is comprised of external projections and fantasies. The real me is undiscovered, at large.

Basically people just making up bullshit in their heads and interacting with their delusions, not me, the real person standing in front of them.

It's titled 'Kiss me, not the shadow.’

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in the upside down

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bear kisses

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Your partner should be your best friend with an added layer of intimacy.

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All this time I’ve lacked self respect, I never understood what it meant to truly ‘respect myself’. Many will tell others to respect themselves when they really mean ‘know your place’, implying subservience.

For me, self respect is treating myself with the same level of respect I endeavour to treat others with.

Of the love that exists within me to be poured out for the people I encounter, there is also a portion for me.

I am also worthy of that love.

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Because I am Yours,

Visions of the cosmos

Come to life under

The glass panes that slumber.

Because I am Yours,

The wind and the rain obey me

The shadows shrink before me.

Because I am Yours.

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What is your new year's resolution?

To become a fully connected human being and to learn how to humbly take the position of one who learns.

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