None Of My Business

You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive. Your attention to things that you think they do that keeps you from your thriving is, in fact, what keeps you from your thriving… It is not what they do to you; it’s what you do to you in fear of what you think that they will do to you. ~ Abraham

What you do to me is none of my business.
What you think of me is none of my business.
Those fall in the Serenity Prayer category
of things I cannot change. Now, there is a way,
inadvertently, I can change your thoughts,
your words, your attitude...but the way,
the sneaky, the effective way, is also found
in the Serenity Prayer...the courage
to change the things I can, specifically,
my thoughts, my words, my attitudes.
And those being changed, your reactions to me,
your words, your interactions, morph
as mine do. And until they do,
I need not claim, need not accept,
need not react to the muck you may hurl my way.
I need only act as a mirror, reflecting it back,
boomeranging it toward the one who CAN change it,
for it's not mine, not my monkey,
no part of my circus...as I said,
none of my business!