Breathing the word like a sigh, John created a portrait of a woman so complicated she almost defies description. "Girl," from Rubber Soul, is not a simple love song; it borders on a declaration of obsession. It is the quiet confession of someone drawn to a girl who may not treat him well, but who cannot seem to help going back anyway.
Even the most self-aware person is not immune to the kind of pull that "Girl" describes. Awareness helps but it does not protect us from ever having that "obsessive" feeling. It is simply a way of seeing the truth more clearly, which sometimes means witnessing your own contradictions with a kind of rueful recognition rather than correcting them on demand. John's gift was his willingness to look at himself clearly without always liking what he saw.
Today, I will practice honest self-awareness about one pattern in my own behavior that does not quite add up to my self-image, observing it without judgment and without pretending it is not there.
What about yourself do you find confusing, the gap between what you value and what you are drawn to? What would it mean to look at that gap with curiosity rather than criticism?
