Hush Now, Child

I think the best part of any dialogue is the pausing; the subtext; what the people aren't saying.

We're such simple, simple organisms and we walk around all day thinking the universe is complex. It just isn't.

You want to be loved, you want to be respected, you want to be seen and heard and understood.

You want to look at another person and reach their brain with your brain. I'm not even necessarily speaking romantically - in class, at work, you want your ideas to be good. You want people to go, "Damn you're talented. I'm glad you're here and someone else isn't."

You're going to leave that conversation and you're going to analyse it. You'll rationalise it, interpret symbols, wonder if they were being honest. You'll tell other people you talked to this person.

And we all pretend we don't know this.

Really we already know how everyone feels for the most part. We're just asking for proof...over and over and over again. We just want to be reassured that our reality is the same as everyone else's reality.

It's pretty phenomenal and beautiful.