The People We Meet

The People We Meet

I can only say that this was inspired by a recent chain of events that have led me to see the truths behind the words of the people we know and trust and the people I think I'd like to trust. It was simply a matter of time before this happened, something inevitable, avoidable, simply because of the many new people I meet everyday. I've made friends and understood immediately after finding out their name why I'd like to consider them friends. I've made immediate enemies, again knowing exactly why it would be best not to be associated with them. I've always been comfortable with the way I have seen people in regards to their quality of a great friendship, bragging, if you will, simply based on the great people I have around me. But I didn't expect this………

I have been doing a lot lately, but not working. I've been going out. I've been meeting friends at bars, clubs and restaurants. I've been meeting people randomly and having a laugh. I've been reading, touring the city, cleaning my house and studying. I mention all of these because it is the people I have met that have, by far, made the greatest impact on my decisions of who I want to be and where I want to go, helping me decide my place in life in 20 years, in 40 years. I always think back to that entry in my journal when I was just a child: "I don't know how I'll do it, but I'm going to change the world and it will be a better place." I wonder if my decisions are guiding me towards that understanding I shared with myself at such a young age. It's through the people I have met that have showed me how I'll do it.

I don't want to mention it, but in short, it's the one thing that separates humanity from being understanding of itself, it's what prevents unity through miscommunication and it's what prevents love by allowing us to forget who we really are. But it's the people I've met who have reminded me.

To be understood is the greatest satisfaction of all and yet for many people it's the one thing that prevents them from being the great people they are truly capable of becoming.