Colleague : "I think he's good. He's going to be really good, just like you."
Staff Nurse : "He looks studious and capable, like he knows what he's doing, but very, very quiet. Not like you - you're quite aggressive."
All that I managed was a tinkering laugh and a smile - the kind of response to brush off any comments I do not feel that I can reply gracefully, or wittily, enough. I have no clear idea whence the comparisons began - sometimes women do get to places with their words without realizing how.
Aggressive - is that really the word to describe me?
Is that still the word most suitable to describe me?
I doubt, and I doubt that she meant it in the full implication of the word, and certainly not in the negative way, but I get the gist of my personality as she saw it.
World, this is me. I cannot change.
And I know, neither can you.
Despite that, still -
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