Overlaps

jon laa wrote on October 24th, 2009, 7:37 pm

It’s been some time since our birth and we’ve come a long way, longest since we ever started. Learning so much more about ourselves everyday and learning what we like and what we seek. It seems that as we know more about ourselves, we give those around us less chances. Everybody has to meet our criteria before we could bring ourselves another step forward.

Pity.

Too often we give up on others, give up on ourselves, give up on opportunities that knocked upon the door. Through life, and possibly failures and disappointments, we learnt to practise quality control - picking and choosing what we are fond of.

Maybe life isn’t just a lesson to learn ourselves. It may be a process of learning about others and learning to let go. Learning to put who we are into the society and learning to expose ourselves to the many around us. Learning how to put our prejudices, stereotypes away, learning how to approach others and learning to response to others’ approaches.

It’s too much of ourselves, really.

And it’s never about us, really.

Goodbye lionel. I appreciated the time we spent together in the clinic and I really appreciated that you waited for me even though you didn’t have to. Perhaps it is meant to be that we only have that few hours to spend together and it’s a pity we never gave ourselves a point of contact.

Goodbye stranger A. I enjoyed conversation a lot and I suppose we have too much of ourselves that we set limitations and restrains to safeguard we are. There wasn’t a compromise or an attempt for it. I suppose we both thought too highly of who we are.