On being there

Over the past weeks, I’ve noticed I’m coming to an understanding of a way of relating to others. I call it "being there."

Being there is a state of mind. An emptying of the self so that the other may be filled. A decreasing of the little self so that the greater Self may increase. Being there is being lived. I used to be the marker that wrote on the board. Now I’m becoming the board on which the markings are etched and cleaned because I’m learning to be there.