(slightly) melancholy

sometimes i don’t treat people very well – always in a way that is unintentional – which seems to be something based on my own failure to understand that people close to me actually do care what i do, to myself and to them. i often make an action based on this idea that no one really regards what i do with much concern – which of course discounts the experience of those who do want to be a part of my life.

i am just realizing now how my inability to love myself, translates into an inability to understand the needs of others.