Thursday, November 20, 2008

If anything could ever feel this real forever...

How many questions do we ask each other everyday out of a desire to connect? What drives us past "shallow"? The key to understanding is a slow process, though it requires only one thing: love. To feel for others, to know that every single person can be "broken" is learned. You don't wake up with compassion. A smack in the face can only go so far. It takes time, patience, and more inconvenience than most are willing to suffer.

I'm not the guy to go to if you want to understand another human being, but I've got the basic knowledge of emotions. People will refrain from answers, redirect the conversation, or even flat-out leave a room to avoid showing the slightest emotional weakness. Are we afraid to get "made fun of"? Do we hide our deepest emotions because others will find it taboo in an everyday setting? Well...I think it's time to grow up. It is time to show everyone around you that you are intricately designed. Your mind doesn't do trillions of calculations per second, like the Playstation 3's Cell processor (that one's for you, Gage), so that you can waste those calculations on petty amusements. The mind desires love. It longs for attention. It needs to exist! So, I say...expose it. Show off your mind. Start a conversation with a close friend or even just an aquaintance. Do it in a one-on-one setup also. That's just how these things have to start. In a group, you will get safe answers or lies.

Evoke emotion, people! I will never be able type it loud enough!

(+20 points for still reading this crap.)

Understand me.

Please.