In My Mind’s Eye

I’ve already accepted that my plight in life is that I’m the realest person I’ll ever know. Not because of the inauthenticity of others but due to the fact that my experience is the only thing I can be absolutely certain of. The only thing I can trust. How others experience life and interact with the world is foreign to me. Although I might try to understand or interpret their experiences, they are not my own and there is nothing in my being that will make their reality my own. Saying all this to say, we cannot expect people to react in any particular way nor should we assume that a person will act in a certain way. A lot of people don’t understand vulnerability and shy away from the concept. They much rather stay in the shadows under the protection of their egos. This may be a hard concept to understand because most think of ego as being boastful but really it’s just a mask that people wear to prevent being humanized. It’s easier to detach from how we might make people feel or how they’ve made us feel if we deny that we have feelings. We benefit a lot more from understanding how we all have flaws and reasons connected to trauma or other wrong doings that cause us to react so subjectively differently. In essence I’ll leave you with this, if you can’t trust yourself, how you gone trust anyone else?