doing your worst

[hummingwolf]

"You've seen me at my worst now, so..." said the man to the woman. They walked off and I heard no more of the conversation, but I started thinking about the times someone has said to me that I've seen them at their worst. Is that statement ever true? I mean, is it true in the way the speaker intends it? It seems that most of the time, what people mean by their worst is how they behaved when they were drunk or sick or severely stressed out, when they were irrational for one reason or another. But aren't our worst behaviors the things we do when we think we're completely justified? Not the times when we tell ourselves later, "I don't know what came over me," but the times when we can state with perfectly clarity all our reasons for what we did? Sure, sometimes we realize later that what we thought perfectly rational behavior was really driven by greed or fear, but it may take us years to get over our self-righteousness and by then it may be too late.

Comments

[sophy.livejournal.com]

I think that's it right there. I have an idea in my head of what I think my various "worst" states are, but it's possible the people who love me don't think those are the bad but have other times in mind when I was at my "worst" in their opinions.
Either way, I think it's always very nice when people can see us in our worst states and still love us. That's very powerful any way you look at it.