We get tired of constantly being around other people. Not always or often, but just occasionally we 
all need a break from even the people we love most in life: our spouse, our kids, our best buddy. They’re not doing anything wrong or bothering you. You love them more than life itself but still, occasionally, you just get a bit weary. We all do. I’m no psychologist but I’m absolutely sure that it’s normal and healthy and nothing to worry about. After all, absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? Or, as Dan Hicks put it in his song by the same name: How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?
Have you ever wondered how you can go through your entire life without feeling that way about yourself?
Geez! Everywhere you go, there you are! You wake up and you’re there. You go to bed and you go with you. You know everything you’re thinking and everything you’re going to say before you say it! Doesn’t that make you just a little crazy every once in awhile?
You understand yourself better than anybody else. You talk to yourself but you never, I mean NEVER, have an argument. You like the same foods, watch the same TV shows, laugh and cry at the same things and you love the same people.
I swear, sometimes I just need a short break from me. I need to send myself away or take a short vacation and be somebody I never met before.
Admit it, the thought of being with me 24/7 for 62 years is unimaginable, right? Sure it is! You couldn’t do it, so why should I be expected to?
I know what you’re thinking and, NO! Both of me assures you emphatically I am not having a break down or bordering on being dangerous to myself. I love every moment of this glorious and divine gift we call life. Why would I kill myself? I love me!
Still, sometimes I begin to have a thought and then cut it off with, “Yeah, whatever,” or I start talking to somebody and begin to bore myself.
Ever feel like that?
Dave Williams
In addition to his news reports on WBAP, Dave can be heard co-hosting News and Information in the Morning on our sister station KLIF 570 AM.
