"Vienna" Billy Joel

Slow down, you're doin' fine You can't be everything you wanna be before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight, tonight Too bad, but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself, that you forgot what you need Though you can see when you're wrong You know you can't always see when you're right You're right

I was recently asked, for the first time that I can recall, what do you need?

What do I need from you? What can you give to me that I currently don't have? Something that I am lacking in my life or with myself that you can offer?

What do I need?

I found that simple sentence to be the most selfless thing a person could say to me. It was like surrender. You would be willing to give me something that I need. Not just something that I want, but something that I am without that would make things better.

That would complete me in a sense?

It would be selfish to answer that question. I am not a taker; I am by nature a giver, so the very idea of someone else giving me the thing that I need was in itself the thing that I needed.

Would you do that for me? I am not worthy of even sharing with you the thing that I need even if I knew what it was.

I suppose when you go without the thing that you need most you put it aside. I want to know what YOU need from me.

I think that what we both need from each other is Emotional Intimacy.

Does that sound correct?