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YOU VS. YOU
Everyone’s A Fighter: We Beat Ourselves Up All Day Long
The fight’s over, you won, you can stop attacking yourself now
My friend Timothy and I were on the school playground doing daring things:
- jumping from the swings and flying
- sliding down the slide sideways, upside down, and backwards
- balancing on top of the monkey bars, the pull-up bars, and the railings of the bouncy bridge.
It was here, at the bouncy bridge, that I wronged my friend.
YOU: What’s a bouncy bridge?
ME: I’m sorry to hear you were chained to a cellar toilet all your life and are therefore unfamiliar with playgrounds and one of their most popular features: the bouncy bridge. Some call it a “clatter bridge” because of the sound it makes when you run over it. These bridges move when you walk on them. They wiggle. They bounce, got it? May I continue with the story?
YOU: Yes, but hurry. Mother heard me talking. I believe I’m about to get the hose again.
ME: What doesn’t kill you, am I right?
YOU: You sound just like Mother.