Not Exactly My Ideal Audience....

         So there's this friend of mine. She's quite the charmer. We've known each other for such a long time that it seems like eons more than it does decades. She's seen it all. The tears I've cried, she's shared, the smiles we've had, she's caused. She's amazing. She inspires me to be a better me. One of the most benevolent creatures I know and yet, nothing in life is quite as it seems. There's this character flaw, that's more of a decision made than it is an alternative forced. She's....not exactly my ideal audience.
        Her name is quite common. It's mother. She can be so indifferent to every and everything said that it makes me (or even you) want to scream. Its like motive to pounce but you can't act on impulse so you rest aside those ill-begotten thoughts and relax. It's the same way that a conversation works. Not every conversation that someone will have will direct a response that is pleasing to the ears. The ideal audience is always going to be one that approves of everything that comes out of your mouth because no one likes being told they're wrong or that they need to change etc. Truth is, it's the hardest thing to find.
       A friend of mine always tells me that it's the people who want the best for us that we want to reject from our lives. The reason we want to reject them is no different from the reason why we would want someone as simple as a mother (parents, in retrospect)  to be removed sometimes from our presence: conflict. They bring conflict about the choice of words spoken, attire, behaviour and everything else that one may find to be irrelevant. But, conflict precedes change. When there is conflict, there's always room for improvement and little by little we approach an equilibrium of character. I guess...sometimes, having an audience that's NOT ideal is beneficial.