An essay Kelsey shared and I think about.

[agentq72]

This is an essay that I read and I have questions about. They are more 'searching for a meaning' type questions though. Maybe not for life, but I guess more of what to do right now for all situations. Well, here's the essay and you can judge for yourself.

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"Hearts will never be practical until made unbreakable" - The Wizard of Oz

[rubyslipper05]

I thought, awhile go, for some reason I go back to the summer of 2005, that no one will every truly, completely, know you. No one can ever seriously understand you and know exactly what you are thinking or feeling or wanting or disliking at every waking moment in time. In that sense I think we all live alone in the house of the heart, but I think the important thing is to recognize all that, embrace the fact that you are a unique individual who brings your own perspective to the world, and try to make the world better for it. Not only that, but I think it is important to recognize all of that and cherish the fact that even if the understanding, the true knowing, can never be complete, it can come pretty close, and you should cherish it when it does, for as long as it does. I've realized all these things, everything I've just written, more and more since I've been at college. It makes me feel older, like I'm growing into adulthood, it brings me a sense of peace, but it also makes me feel full of love and hope and raw energy and blind

[elbeado88]

tom,
this, along with your newest post, made me think about some things. i know i don't post that often in general on lj, but now i realize maybe there are some times i really should. i think sometimes when i read some deep and chock-full of emotion, i tend to not say anything in response because i feel as though whomever is writing doesn't need a response; however, they are just letting out feeling. apparently this is not the case always, and i should think about the point the person is really trying to get across in posting something. i know we don't talk as much as we used to, but i still care about you just as much as i always have. you were always a true friend. i should try to be the same.
-kaylyn