Just a quote I like
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Jung-
This is one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite Psychologists, a man I think who was ahead of his time but so damn accurate about our animal instincts that lie like primal beasts deep within us.
Have you ever met some one who you feel so connected to in a way that you have never been connected to with another person in your whole life, some one who understands your depth and primal desires with out ever having met them? But knowing that the only reason you get that is because through the computer you can let your self be that part of you that you just can't be in life. Its amazing to me that you Joy said that in your post today about just knowing you can open a web page and find Samara (Sanskrit word for like mindedness), and find a bond with people you have never met.
Is it because we allow ourselves to be who we really are in a way we can't be outside for fear of getting swallowed up by the constant barrage of sorrow and suffering we get in the real world? That over time we have gotten so good at protecting ourselves and settling for what is instead of what is unknown, do we trust the process that little now?
I get so tired of playing it safe or being on my guard some times it takes so much work it seems yet I'm seemingly powerless to not do it. Damn those sub conscious defence mechanisms do they ever stop trying to protect us from our past, will we ever let them?
I shared my poetry with a friend tonight that I feel that undescribable connection to and it felt good to share a hidden part of myself again, which isn't some thing I've done for a long, long time. I made myself vunerable what a strange feeling.
Peace
K