Friday, March 6, 2020
Loneliness of human being
Sometimes I walk through the city, looking attentively at other people.
In those moments, I can clearly see or feel their minds. There might be
one person thinking: "today hopefully everybody sees how special I am by
my superior make-up" and another one is pauseless afraid of being too
worthless and therefore being excluded from society, walking along with
shoulders drawn-in and a paranoid gaze. If he could, he would
immediately change his skin color, but that is the very only thing he
will never be able to change. A third one thinks how many meetings she
can still squeeze in that day so that she will finally achieve the
maximum effectiveness and be able to proudly report that to her parents
on the daily nightly phonecall from them. And a fourth one is just
engaged in trying to educate his paradoxically totally uncontrollable
child. In some of those moments, I just feel compassion for each one of
them as all of their thoughts are familiar to me. As long as I can
imagine those, I must have had similar thoughts at least once in my
lifetime. From that, I can only conclude that there is no difference
amongst human beings. People think and feel the same and thus basically are the same.
Always and everywhere. But the thoughts almost all of us are constantly engaged with
are about whether we are better than the others or worse, whether we are
more or less lucky, more or less blessed, more or less talented or more
or less beautiful. So we constantly hold thoughts of comparison and
therefore of separation in our minds. Consequently, we feel separate from others and so damned alone although we live amongst billions of
other people having utterly the same thoughts and feelings than us, maybe some of them even just exactly in that very moment.
Isn't that awkward?
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