ou know,

when you want to please

to mask, to be accepted?

you know,

i mean, why do we say you 

when you clearly mean me?

when i clearly mean me

when i mean to say

i’m a people pleaser… 

but i’m not good at it.

do you ever find yourself saying, ‘you know that thing where…’ and then you find yourself describing your own strange anxiety or neuroticism and you think to yourself: this was me I was talking about the whole time. we talk about ourselves specifically in this universal manner. we put our situation into the listener, and ask them to empathise, and forgive, but we don’t have the strength to say: i am weak. i need your validation.