oye.
it has just occurred to me at this very moment that the pure human condition is trying to be understood.
living in a country where i am misunderstood on a daily basis, this should have been obvious.
but when it comes to people who do in fact speak my own language and who know where i come from and where my heart is, and there is still miscommunication i learn that humans are tragically, in the platonic sense, alone. we spend our lives trying to make others understand what goes on in the space between our ears.
do you even understand what i am saying?
living in a country where i am misunderstood on a daily basis, this should have been obvious.
but when it comes to people who do in fact speak my own language and who know where i come from and where my heart is, and there is still miscommunication i learn that humans are tragically, in the platonic sense, alone. we spend our lives trying to make others understand what goes on in the space between our ears.
do you even understand what i am saying?
posted by isobella at 11:08 PM
2 Comments:
The absurd is our trying to make sense of a world that will always remain a mystery; this holds true of trying to make sense of people too. Sadly we will always remain strangers to each other, though at times we might trick ourselves into thinking that we know someone. The idea that no one will ever know you hurts; but also offers that life, and people, will always remain a splendid mystery, as will you.
Where does our need to connect and be understood come from? That's something I've been thinking about a lot lately, though with no conclusions, thus far. Is it so frightening to be alone?
Is it tragic that we are alone? That we feel lonely or that we are unable to accept that societies obsession with being part of a collective is better than being alone? We chose the degree to which we feel seperated from those around us. In the end, although unique to the situation, all emotions have been felt before and most of us have felt we are misunderstood in them. We really are more united than we think, yet at the same time in a way without expectations.
;)
I hope you are well. xoxox
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