Today’s Daily Create challenged us to write something about becoming a parent or any other paradox and since I’m not a parent, I’ve decided to write a paradox.

Growing up, I’ve always been told that I ‘butt heads’ or don’t get along with people who have the same personality as me. I suppose this is where I can use the ‘opposites attract’ punchline and say that it all makes sense to me, but it doesn’t. Why do I not get along with people most like myself? I like the person that I am and I think that I am a good person but why is looking in the mirror at another person who shares my candor a trigger for bad behavior. Perhaps it is how we developed this personality, the experiences that we’ve gone through or maybe we are fighting over the roles we play in society. Either way, this has become a paradox of my life that I have yet to figure out and I wonder if anyone feels the same.

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