Embracing Change and Contradiction - Truly Knowing Someone

 

The Complexity of Truly Knowing Someone:

Can you truly know someone? I don't think so. The more I try to figure out a person, the more I slip away from who they are. I cannot fathom that, at least logically. At times, I feel that I know someone completely (including myself), but at other times, I find something entirely contrasting. Is it simply that we are all ever-changing? The moment you try to hold onto it is the moment you lose it.

From my personal experience, I have tried to love, and every person I have loved has become an end in themselves. I thought of them as the beginning and the end, but alas, I am writing this to you as a lone man. What I find truly fascinating is that there are hours when I cannot be left alone; the world has to be by my side. But there are also moments when I cannot stand anyone beside me.

The living contradiction that I am encourages me not to fix myself to a specific category or class but to exist as a living entity, experiencing everything in between. As I reflected today, on my birthday, with the people I love, what can we truly stress about when nothing lasts forever?