there are people who believe that you can never really know another person just from online conversations.
they are wrong.
you can.
and you can know that person so well that even when they cease to exist, they are still in your heart, as whatever you believed them to be.
is knowing someone from in-person interaction more authentic than the knowing you experience online? or do we really ever know anyone in our lives at all?
even the most transparent and authentic person, to some extent, is hiding behind their own self-made illusions, hoping people see only the mask they present and not who they truely are. for if we saw the real him/her, would we still love them or would we reject them for not being the illusion we've grown accostomed to seeing.
what is really sad, is that by hiding oneself from others, one can never be fully known, nor can one ever fully know themself or another. the illusion we project prevents us from seeing the truth of ourselves, just as it prevents us from seeing the truth of another.
what one misses by hiding behind this mask is the beauty and treasure that is oneself. able to see only what others see in us, we lose ourselves in this lie.
if we are unknown to others then we are unknown to ourselves, and we cannot but cease to exist at all.
previously:
weather or not - 2006-03-07
My Flight - 2006-03-02
poetree in motion - 2006-02-28
ultimate personality test - 2006-02-25
limerick e-trip - 2006-02-22