The thing that I am
If those we began to love could know us as we were before we met them… they could realize what they made of us. (A. Camus)
How we see things is continually changing. How you see is what you get. Today, people are combining the issue of computing with genetic and biological issues. To begin to mess with people’s thought processes. So, I hope you don’t discover the repetitive questions that pop into my mind: ‘Have you ever asked so much to do something?’ ‘What exactly do you ask?’ ‘Why does everyone have two options: see this or see that?’ ‘It’s easier to see how or with, but why would anyone speculate about that?’
My mind explodes daily! It’s something, a kind of connection, the thing that touches us where the two ends meet. When a connection is intense, the temptation to throw the rules out the window increases. We must embrace the idea that ‘to solve a problem we need to understand it’.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau an 18th-century French philosopher wrote about a solution to these problems called “amour-propre”. But don’t expect this to work! After all, everything that has an opposite requires a choice. And poetry, not philosophy, helps us do this, as does psychology.
from “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the…
For all the forgotten ones remember:
Love is that twist of fate that can instantly take the trajectory of any story, expectation, or life—and drive in the opposite direction. This is the kind of thing I am.
