I was told this evening that I apparently come off as a person who's used to being alone. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that. I strive for self-sufficiency, so I suppose (hehe, alliteration) that this is, in essence, the ultimate realization of that goal. The label itself, however, is problematic.
It's impossible to really know someone. No matter how close someone might claim to be to a loved one or a cherished friend, everything they think they know is a simple combination of what the first party wants to see and what the second wants the first to see.
We are strange creatures. Solitary flock animals. We like to be alone together.
Am I simply being too fucking pretentious for my own good?
Is this question a little too personal to be posing to the faceless anonymous of the interweb?
Ah, well...
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"The mind sees what it chooses to see." Tom Hanks, the Da Vinci Code (one of the few good things about that book/movie: Tom Hanks)
ReplyDelete"What is, is what is percieved." George Berkely
"That really hot girl you slept with last night doesn't look so hot without your beer goggles on." Anonymous
Yeah, that's basically what I was commenting on in that middle paragraph, the nature of perception itself.
ReplyDeleteAlthough perception is the manner of seeing the world, seeing is not all that there is. There is also understanding. If one were to understand the underlying forces that drive the mechanism, then perceiving the mechanism becomes irrelevant, as its supposed actions and appearance are already known. All manners of happenings to the mechanism that could not be predicted by its general understanding would be knowable if one were to understand further into the manners of its surroundings. Yet, as information of this magnitude is nigh impossible to obtain in this or future time, perception seems to be a necessary evil, and it is easily deceived.
ReplyDeleteYour troubles are not so unique, my friend.