Perhaps one of the most disheartening things in life is to be pigeon-holed as a particular type of person. Because in the instant that you have pigeon-holed someone, you immediately limit their ability to be anything else to you. No longer do they have the opportunity to have levels. A level that you can laugh with them on and a level that your brow can be dense because both of you are deep in thought about something the other has said. This idea of seeing levels in someone, it goes beyond just romantic relationships. It is also in common relationships that people find themselves in everyday. For I love to sit with someone who can allow me to laugh in the first 5 minutes and be angry about something in the following 10.
Perhaps, equally, one of the most beautiful things is when someone looks at you and sees levels. They leave you to be somewhat mysterious, and in doing such, they acknowledge that there is much to you to be understood, much to know that they do not already know.
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2 comments:
i think an effect of reducing people to a single level, as you put it, is that you make them into a utility, and no one wants to just be a commodity.
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