i get you

today my family came over to my house
and they went swimming
i slept =)

however, before everybody came into the pool
little Mac, the baby of the family, was swimming around in the pool by himself
now, he's like...3 or something, and he had floaties and a noodle, and mai chi and i were pushing him around
we were lyingo n the edges of the pool, and encouraging him to swim towards us.
y'know, the usual stuff =)

and then mai chi went inside to get changed
and so it was just mac swimming in the pool and me lying on the edge
and all of the adults suddenly turned their attention to him and started callilng out to him
shouting out stuff like "kick kcik KICK!"
and telling him to kick his legs and SWIM
rather than just float around on his noodle
which he was content to do

and while everybody was shouting out at him, encouraging him to swim properly
he looked at me
and i thgouth "yeah, i get you little man. you just want to float around and do your own thing, yet everybody keeps telling you NOT to do it. i get you, i really do"

and that's what everything is like
everything
EVERYTHING

it's hard, as little mac found out today, to keep doing your own thing when everybody is telling you what to do
and i ought to know
but then, everybody has their own stories
and experiences about this

let me hear yours?
and maybe i'll let you hear one of mine =)