It’s Poetry Wednesday
Reputation
Hello all,
A short one this week as I’m not actually home. More in honour of IWD.
I often got called a man-eater at college, cos I didn’t keep boyfriends for very long. I despised thinking I was leading someone on if I knew we wouldn’t last the course and would end relationships. Most of my boyfriends lasted about 6 weeks, and then I would take at least 6 months to a year before the next one so I never really understood my ‘reputation’. It’s what they wanted to think about me. Being a strong woman wasn’t what most did, most stayed with boyfriends just because until they had already lined up the next one.
Reputation
A reputation
is merely
false hope
in the minds of others
Did you ever get an undeserved reputation? I always felt those that who threw the names around were projecting, embarrassed by their own behaviour.
Till next week.
I think I often don't know how others perceive me; more than once I've been surprised to find out. The first time I was about 14, and beginning a friendship with a girl who would become a best friend. She told me she'd always thought I was so stuck up, because I never talked with most people but clearly was confident and cool. I had thought the same about her! Turns out we were both fairly crippled by social anxiety and insecurity and our silence came not from confidence but a total lack of it. So, I guess she and I were both projecting our own stuff onto each other.
Interesting idea and worth bearing in mind.