Esther :),
From reading your post, somehow you created the mood of loneliness. (It really drags me in) I can sort of relate to your personal story about how your foot fell asleep, I guess most people do have the similar experience as you do. Sometimes not necessary that our foot fell asleep, perhaps you have a stomached or sort of pain that is invisible, I find it hard to make somebody to believe that I actually feel pain. I think people might have experienced what we all have experienced, but it is just hard to make someone to actually feel the exact way as you feel. I guess… to make people feel how you exactly feel, it has to do with trust rather than sympathy. (I don’t know how I come up with this, hopefully making sense)
Sometimes I wonder, it is our own fault that we did not explain ourselves clear enough, or is it the other person who finds it hard to understand.
When you say “I sometimes wished that I could be alone. But David already claims that I’m already alone in the world”. I wonder how you define alone in this case. Do you mean spiritual alone or really isolated from everybody in the school?
I have to agree with what you said at the end. It is kind of difficult to just put this all at once… Perhaps, this connects to what Andy has said in class that people often don’t think. But I guess, it is just hard to put all the thoughts together...and thinking required a lot of that. (Figure things out, and lead to another thought)
Definitely OVERWHELMING...
By the way, thanks for bringing up the personal story about the foot fell asleep. It is a very resonant point.
Bao Lin
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May :),
I like the way that you connected this to your personal experience from many trips that you have taken. Somewhat, I can connect to your experience because I am Chinese. Yes, there are the poor and rich, regardless of the culture; we are all the same at some point. People all went through their hard times and everybody have their own afflictions at some point in lives. However, I am not very sure which part of David Banach’s speech has made you see how close we really are from China. (Perhaps a quote and tie back to your point?) I am assuming you are relating to the idea of we are all individuals in this world. If that is the case, then we are all close to each other because we are individuals, but very far away because every individual have their own thoughts.
Yes, if this is the case that I mentioned above. I do agree that there are no such boundaries on the map. We are just all individuals in the world. At the same time, it raise up the point that this contradicts with each other. We are the same and different, because we are all individuals in this world. What makes us different is that we all have different ideas. What makes us the same is that we all have our own difficulties, but different kinds. I guess this is what you mean by saying “Maybe we all just think there is a China and don’t really know that there isn’t one.” Nevertheless, I find this point very contradicted depending on perspectives.
I also like Banach’s metaphor about TV screens and how we see others and ourselves. In my opinion, I think a lot of these have to with the way people perceive things. We can see ourselves as getting trap, but we might also see that we are free. This very depends on the situation and our perspective.
I will like to answer to the question that you asked in the end of your post. Is it possible that everyone around you sees you differently than the person next to you? For this question, in terms of everybody’s appearance, yes! I think people do look at you differently compare to the person next to you, because we barely know everybody. Therefore we judge before we get to know the person. But in certain points, when people shared the thoughts and ideas about certain things, then people will see you as the same, more like a group that believes the same thing.
Your post is very interesting with some crucial points that deepen my thinking. Thanks.
Bao Lin
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