When You Come Fourth
I spoke yesterday about my sense of the impossibility of knowing what somebody else’s experience is really like. This arising because of our completely unique perspectives on the universe. Or our fundamental loneliness, if we choose to look at it or face it in those terms.
But still we try to reach across the divide. And that happens to be, or can become, one of the best qualities of our human lives - these attempts to understand each other.
Because of the many humans who try to do this, I feel I can confidently assert that, for everybody, there is somebody - whether family member, friend, or complete stranger - who cares “When You Come Fourth”. Whatever we may think or feel.
So though we may, in one sense, be completely alone in our little conscious corner of the conscious universe … we are, paradoxically, never alone. And our efforts to lessen somebody else’s sense of suffering are never futile or wasted. In fact those efforts demonstrate the very best of us. However cack-handed our attempts may be.
Now, more than ever, we should not stop trying to reach across those lonely divides.