Toilet conversations

Do you ever talk to yourself in the toilet? I do.

Sometimes I revisit and tweak answers that I should have given people. Other times, and mostly too, I imagine scenarios and rehearse my lines as if the scenarios were really happening.

Just last night, while I was showering, I imagined myself giving a talk to an audience, explaining why I went into social work. It all started with a question that an audience member posed me: "You are from an elite school. How would you relate to students of neighbourhood schools?"

I found myself saying that you had to discover what moves you, because that thing that moves you would give you a sense of purpose in doing that branch of social work, and give you reason to carry on. As I talked about what moved me, I found the tears coming.

We are all more alike in our human-ness than we think we are. We have universal desires and yearnings, and therefore what moves us is merely a representation of these universal themes that happen in human life. Connection, loss, acceptance, meaning, love, achievement, belonging... I may have grown up different from you, but really, I am alike with you than different.

Do you have conversations with yourself in the toilet? Start one today, and you may learn something new about yourself.

(Then again, maybe you might just think I'm crazy.)

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