BOUNDARIES

     Personal space is about more than physical distance. It's a necessary protection against the creeping energy of someone who is trying to wheedle inside of us like a weed with their energy and conversation. Meddlesome others pinch and suffocate us like vines. Their invasive questions thrust across our boundaries before we even realize that we need to shore up.
     To re-establish our borderline once it has been broken, we have to send out a bit of volley and gunshot warning to back the perpetrators off. We have to pause a moment to repair the damage. Like a dog who growls, we have to be clear with others when they are about to over-step. To invite them to tromp all over us as they please with their thoughts and opinions and questions is to become their toy. We lose our footing as they push at us, and we need to learn to stand our ground.
     Boundaries are necessary and respectable. We cannot hope for satisfaction in life if we recklessly disrespect the boundaries of others, or allow them to disrespect ours.

I understand and appreciate the importance of personal boundaries.