Making a Point

Making a Point

There are many situations and ideas which we cannot really define.  However that does not prevent us from taking them for granted.  As a matter of fact, the majority of our ideas and beliefs are terms that we cannot really describe in a clear manner, yet they are, in a sense, the things that we hold the most stubbornly to.  

Understanding people is something we believe we excel at.  We always judge them from a one dimensional perspective, and speak the full extent of our minds upon their situation and their motives before they have said or done anything that truly reveals their character.  It is an educated guess, some of us say, but if we are biased, we have not been taught otherwise.  

It is also amusing to note how often we forget names, and in explaining them completely miss the point.  We get angry when someone has not understood us because what we see is obvious even though what we describe is blurry, but this is how the world works: thinking one thing and saying another.  

I wouldn't chalk this up to lack of learning on anyone's part, rather, we are so used to having something, that when it is not there, we don't really know what is missing.  But this is not always true either.  Our universe is made up in large part of a dark matter the human eye cannot perceive and this certainly lies at the deepest core of our psyche, that what is not there is truly the 'thing' that we have.  Thus if we are to look around us, we shall find that the familiar world we know is only familiarized by the shortest and least perceptible moments of our lives.  The rest lies in what we do not understand, what we do not see, and it is this, truly, that is always the most difficult to name.

Douglas Thornton