"Hot lines under a rain of drum, Cigarette Props in action, Dialogue dub, now heres the rub, She's acting her reaction"
- she's in parties, bauhaus
Mabyl has been talking recently about her classmates, and making choices based on what they tell her to do versus what she thinks is right. I find it cool that she thinks to vocalize this internal debate, and privileged, also, that she's open to talking to me about it. So I downplay our interaction. I want it to be as casual and normal as anything else that she and I speak about her life.
I tell her she is doing the right thing by saying "No" to some of the things her friends at school are up to, mostly because she has the ability to say no. But pretty much like every other woman ever, she wants to please the other kids, and she is afraid for people to not like her, etc. So I shrug it off and tell her she doesn't need people like that to like her anyway, because people like that really aren't worth knowing in the first place. She considers this and asks me, "Mom, am I somebody worth knowing?"
I told her, "I don't know, Snoopy. That's entirely up to you."
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