Feel good about yourself

The most important is -

they say -

to feel good about yourself.

I swear.

This is what They say.

To be complete with who you are.

Accept yourself,

so that you can accept the other,

and the alien!

So They say.

They say of tyrants,

that they thrive, by making people feel good

about themselves,

feel special,

feel better than others,

feel good about themselves !

They say, that once upon a time it has been said,

(maybe Eleanor Roosevelt said the words, but I don't think she was first)

that for another to succeed in making you feel bad about yourself,

you have to Help.

You see – you feel like shit,

because you cooperate with it.

But truthfully,

I'm not so sure how much in that I still believe.

It seems to me, as I am speaking, that Eleanor was quite naïve.

seemingly inoffensive,

but quite deceptive.

For when the many look at the one,

In a hurtful manner,

He shall be hurt.

And this has nothing to do with his giving them help.

It is because he is the one, and they are the many.

It is the strength of the many.

It is the weakness of the one.

Alas.

And I say that people, too often,

feel good about themselves,

only when they make others feel bad about themselves.

And that's the way it is.

And the one – in this state – where others make him feel so bad being himself,

shouldn't feel bad as well for failing to think like Eleanor,

but instead look around and

not forget that like him there are more,

many more.

If they are not around just then,

then he should know,

there were his likes before,

there will be ever more,

and like them – inside, in thoughts, in feelings –

painful, seething, sadly weeping –

all of us, together,

feel bad about ourselves.