In search of something simple just everyday perfection
I met a friend and so they say it wasn’t only the beauty marks, kind
heart, or reflections of perfection but instead, or rather, maybe
moreover, it was the compatible everyday humanity. We both were
failures and this we knew, too well. But into this failed state together
was introduced a bit of everyday humanity.
Now, you might say I
am talking nonsense, but I take your point, so let me get to it. We were
not souls enraptured above our bodies but two lost souls sharing a map.
Kindred spirits learning to find hope and search for each day with
love.
The falling apart of society is not only a loss in the
sphere of identity but in how we can make each other whole, complete
humans. How we can exist together not only as that which indicates we
are something different, but also, with the other, something that is
complete. These are not realities that indicate a simple solution and
all is well; rather, these comments indicate a potential starting point.
A place to meet, come together, and with each other try and be
something moreover.
And here is part of the complexity: it is
the shriveling into the self. The pushing and pulling apart of one
another. The dreadful shaking of soul that not only destroys another but
also oneself. Love thy neighbor as thyself is not a simple saying baked
in the fabric of history’s cultural cliché; rather, these words when
echoed into daily life like a prism refract heaven into earth and help
one see, more often than not, we are one another. Not as a philosophic
talking point debating the identity of the individual but as a beaming
reality that love can meet failure and, in that moment, find something
that each we need. Those simple moments we help each other find our
everyday humanity.
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