No Have Tos

You really don't.  No body HAS to do anything.

This is a thought that I have struggled with - most of the time the struggle ending with me giving into the "have to." 

And I have such a clear head today, it's awesome.  This clear head is courtesy of something else and maybe someday, I'll share THAT revelation, but not today!  I had told my brother to come visit and during the conversation I asked if he knew if our sister was going to be there - my twin.  I stated that I did not want to be around her currently because we had both decided we do not have good viewpoints of one another. 

Well, I was told that I need to talk to her and we are both acting immaturely.

I want to laugh!  I want to giggle and roll on the flooring with laughter!  And this realization is SO CLEAR.  I do not have to do anything.  I do not have to say anything.  I do not...have to feel anything?  But I'm already not angry, I'm not sad....I am no more of these negative feelings that have filled me for the last decade. 

I don't care what she thinks.  I don't care what she says.  I don't care if we are friends, sisters, relatives.  She is JUST a person.  And if she was ANYONE else and treated me the way she treated me - we wouldn't be friends.  We wouldn't see one another.  We wouldn't talk.  So why do I have to suck up the negative emotions she causes me because of that "family" word?  If she was my boyfriend and said these words to me - we'd cry emotional abuse and shit would happen.

But she's family so instead it all gets chalked up to "siblings fighting," and one person is not winning.  But I am winning now.  I have cast out the utter stupidity, this cruel, this horribleness and I am lighter.  I am better.  I am freer.

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