Sunday, March 3, 2013

I was at the grocery store today, and I went around, looking at people, and I started thinking about them. Like I became cognizant of the fact that they were people with their own lives and that the world looks slightly different from their (equally valid) perspectives, and that made me think, "I wonder what the world, from my perspective, would look like to them."

What are other people like? What goes on inside their heads? Do they love the world? Hate it? Not care? Maybe they haven't formed an opinion on that idea. Do they have a set of rules they follow? A philosophy? A religion? Maybe they have religion or philosophy but no rules it results in them following. Maybe they have the opposite; rules with no kind of philosophy or religion from which they result.

What do other people feel? What do they not feel? Are there people who live without anger or hate or despair? Maybe there are some without joy or love or excitement. Have they loved? Do they currently love? Do they go around wondering what in the world love is? Is there anything in this life that they hate, something that sparks a fire of rage and anger inside them that nothing else does? Or maybe they don't have intense emotions. Maybe some of them have muted feelings. Maybe some of them are the opposite. All their emotions are intense. Do they think about the world? Are they clever? Do they ever consider the full scope of life and go through it, burdened with the need to think about things all the time? Or maybe they're the opposite, living in a tiny world but free from the stress of having to stop and think about what existing really is.
 
What must it be like inside their heads?