The art of Thomas Kinkade
Different Drums and Different Drummers
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want
is
wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my
view.
Or if my emotion is more than yours, or less, given the same
circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more weakly or strongly.
Or yet if I act in some way other than your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will
come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of
you.
I may be your spouse, your employee, your child, your parent, or your
friend. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs,
or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of
mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right
-- for me.
To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you
embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated
or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness.
And in understanding me, you might come to prize my differences from
you, and far from seeking to change them, you might preserve and
even nurture those differences.