If you met me

If you met me would you know me?  Few people really truly know me.  People that read my writings and see the more poetic side of me do not know me in vivo.  Those that know me from work do not know the poetic side or the simplistic do-it-all Hilljack side of me.  The ones that know the simplistic Hilljack side of me do not know the poetic or motivated professional side of me.  Very few know all sides of me.  There's a very small few that really, absolutely, honestly know me for who I actually am. Why are there so few that know me though?  Maybe because there's so few that care to?  Maybe it's because I am such a private person with my thoughts in vivo.  Maybe because most people don't typically want to know a person beyond the scope which serves their purposes.  I don't know what the reason is entirely.  I wish people would take the time and ask the questions and really get to know me for who I am rather than who they want or need me to be.  I feel so misunderstood some days.  It seems so many people assume they know me but in fact only a handful in the world do.  So how about you?  If you were to meet me would you guess it was me?  Or would you say "that ratty Hilljack over there never had a complex or poetic thought in his life" or would you say "that professional couldn't fix his own weedeater if his life depended on it".  Or would you say "There is a complex man that has many sides of humanity to offer his friends if they were only as complex".  I am often disappointed because the complexity of people is never what I think it to be.  Being complex myself, I assume others are too.  I have asked friends deep in thought what they are thinking.  As I wait for a profound epiphany I inevitably get something like "I am just wondering what I'm going to eat for dinner."  REALLY?!  I was thinking about what it means to actually love someone and how love is manifest.  My bad. Take the time.  Get to know those in your life.  Especially the quiet ones, they keep their world to themselves and only let in those that genuinely deserve to be in.  We are like a multi faceted gem, with many sides facing different ways, being all things to all people to live a fulfilling life.  Rare is the person who takes the time to see any other side than that which pleases them.