When the kids throw pencils at you, don't snatch them out of the air like a ninja warrior and whip them back.

When the kids scream "I'm gonna fuck you up!"...don't seductively ask "one side and down the other?".

When someone sticks their tongue out, don't say "Ooooooh, 10 minutes in the hole for you!"


And don't worry, you're great.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.