Besoin, Be soi

[cbertsch]

Guess what? It turns out that I have way more need to be acknowledged, affectionately, than I like to think. Or like to pretend. I'm not sure there's a difference.

Comments

[ex-benlinus.livejournal.com]

It's Sensitive Week for everyone it seems.
Big Man Hugs, Charlie Bertsch.

[tommix.livejournal.com]

You're cute!

[frostedfuckhead.livejournal.com]

haha, yeah, me too. i try to keep the need in check with heavy doses of rationality but it doesn't always work out.

pretending

[e4q.livejournal.com]

is that a kind of thinking?

oh good

[katieengl.livejournal.com]

i was starting to think you were super human! everyone needs that, and trust me you are regarded affectionately by a great many people, myself included.

[marcegoodman.livejournal.com]

Is it a preferred version of yourself that is underacknowledged? The British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips (a former fave) once suggested that we are never misunderstood we are only understood in ways we don't like. Back east, amongst a deeper density of kith and kin than usual, I've had plenty of occasion to think about this.