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No Behaviour Is Manipulative, Until It Finds Its Match
A poem and a viewpoint about responsibility
“I am a puzzle of two pieces”
— said the manipulative relationship —
“that co-synthesize the image born;
each one has its share in the creation.
I cannot exist, if they don’t unite.
Each of them is a potential me;
I am just a possibility;
they only enclose the ability.
A tendency lies within them
and they attract each other,
but they forget they both contribute;
responsibility’s mode is put on mute.
I wonder how they can believe
that half an image is the whole of it.
A behaviour is just a behaviour manifesting;
it takes an adjective through its matching”.
«He/She is manipulative» I often hear.
He/She is not manipulative at the time they manifest the behavior.
At that moment, this is just a behavior.
Potentially manipulative, perhaps.
But not manipulative.
