The Man In My Eyes

[JJ]

Something I wrote for a closed group on FB but it somehow captures something of my life and I wanted to share it here  where it all began

 

I have become the man in my eyes
Lifelong I learned all the hard lessons about who I was supposed to be. I looked and moved and sounded right. Yet I made people uneasy . Now they are comfortable around me and like me in a way they never did before.
I just realized it's because I could never change my eyes and it was always a man looking out through them.
Now I am the man in my eyes. What a glorious thing that is.

 

Johnny

[Carolyn Marie]

I can see how true that is, and that is a marvelous way of expressing that truth.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts, JJ.

 

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Charlize]

That is beautifully put Johnny.  This morning i was thinking how much more comfortable i am around others today.  Perhaps much of that is because they can finally feel comfortable around me.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Timber Wolf]

What a beautiful realisation.

 

Lots of love,

Timber Wolf?

[Jennifer T]

 

Johnny. You have, of course, no way of knowing this. But I believe you have answered a question just two days ago I asked a friend of mine.  

 

I just read this and I think you've probably nailed it here:

 

"Yet I made people uneasy...

I could never change my eyes."

 

Since I have been on my own, I have been wearing either very dark tinted glasses or those with quick photogray change. Many years ago a female friend of mine asked to see my eyes without glasses. I wouldn't let her. 

 

No matter how I've cloaked Jennifer in my life, my eyes always betray me.

 

Mirrors of the soul.

 

Your journey, Johnny, and your sharing of such, does help others understand things. I hope you are aware of that.