April 22, 2024 – A

Who is your favorite human being,
real or fictional?

Tevya ranks as mine.

I would love to spend some time
with Tevya.

Mostly, laughing.

So, I spend time with Tevya
in my mind.

Who do you spend time with
in your mind?

Spending time with our favorite people
is time well-spent,
whether it is real
or imaginary.

Of course, the imaginary time spent
is all projection,
revealing all about us
and nothing about them.

We make them up,
but that is added value!
Because it shows us better who we are
than an actual favorite person ever could.

What we imagine that we need
IS what we need!
And we need to sit with that
and allow it to grow us up
a bit more, yet again.

I need to be 
who I imagine Tevya to have been.

Same goes for our most despised person.
We need to see all the ways we resemble
him/her.

For, they, too, are mirrors showing us
who we are,
or, at least, who we are capable of being.

And, give us something to work on
for the rest of our life.

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