I'm aware that most skim the surface of another. There is some penetration into the penetrable parts.. But even that is just a weak example of the exploration into the depth and breadth of a human. Maybe most are satisfied there. Staying right there. Leaving their innermost, ugly, raw, exposed selves buried deep beneath that surface, that thin layer of humanness covered in colors that don't quite look real.
I feel a great need for someone to reach right into that depth and see it all, taste it all, know it all and sit back with great ease, smiling unapologetically.
do you really want this? wouldn't this be the end of the mystery? pulling the curtain back to see not an all powerful wizard, but a fraud? or worse? there is darkness, there is fear, and anger. there is genius and love and caring. all that goes beyond anything that could penetrate up through the surface. shouldn't that kind of rawness be contained, just as the skin, as frail and thin as it is, holds in everything that keeps us alive, that keeps us human?
ReplyDeleteYour mistake Anonymous is thinking every "I" written is an attribution of me.. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, maybe partly, maybe wholly. Maybe I have the habit of writing a fuller, braver "me" than I am unwritten..
DeleteAt the risk of revealing too much, however, I wonder if life would be enhanced if one person in all the world could know you so deeply, intimately, completely as to increase your footprint and connectivity to the experience of living.
Deleteis this you wondering. or is this the ubiquitous use of the word I?
ReplyDeleteis it possible to increase your footprint or connectivity with the experience of life without a deep, intimate connection to someone else?
No ubiquity..
DeleteAnd anything is possible. Who am I to give a resounding, definitive yes or no to anything?