Voices

So many voices. Quite the challenge to discern and distinguish between them. Especially while settling into the integrity of our own. Gone is the adolescent satisfaction of simply being the opposite of those from whom we needed to distinguish ourselves. Down the road aways yet is the secure maturity that can listen and learn without ceding self. In the mean time we make our next choices amidst the cacophony of voices we feel expect so much from us. Until, that is, we realize they neither know us nor care about us. No one said growing up would be easy.