timeless ideas... timeless emotions... wonderful, beautiful, sometimes painful, but impersonal... ideas are impersonal and emotions are illusions, for when we look around we are not seeing each other, we are not sharing the moments, the experience, each other... we read and feel the memories and emotions within us...
2005-01-02
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possibly the longest single entry i've uploaded...
but what does it all mean outside of my head, aye? :)
Fishing for compliments?
Or still blurry after all these years?
These words make sense outside of your head ... or my head for that matter.
They're as close to perfect as you've ever come to explaining the bittersweet reality of sharing of ourselves online or on paper.
It is a diluted sharing ... a time-warped sharing ... a perspective-warped sharing ... that may every now and again match on both sides of space, place and time ... but as you so wordliciously state ... more often than not the words simply spark in the reader personal memories and emotions ... and not necessarily that of the writer.
Empathy does not often take the forefront when reading ... it's an art that one must hone. To read with as little self as possible ... to read while trying to fit someone else's shoes for a moment, an emotion, a space in time.
I think back to those snail-mail days ... when I would exclaim to myself and then you on paper - "I know exactly what you mean." I was sure as hell that I knew what you meant ... it had not crossed my mind in the excitement of discovering your gardens and the magic that is you that you would inspire me to emote and remember and feel ...
And as many ... I believed that I was discovering you when I was merely rediscovering myself.
That is your gift ... I finally can say that I DO understand why you call yourself a mirror. After all these years of believing that I understood when I really didn't understand ... I proclaim that I've understood (while acknowledging that I could be wrong ...) :P
not compliments, connections...
thank you for this one, it means a lot...
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