Something to Intertwine With

Watching the dynamic between two people that are close is so fascinating. There are so many things to look for outside of the way they speak to eachother or their actions toward eachother. It is not about how they signal toward eachother or look at each other or the way they insert inside jokes that no one else will ever understand. What is more fascinating than that is the fact that no matter how well they seem to know eachother, they know that there is always more to know.

Within moments that they are having, they are still trying to read eachother and take further their understanding of the other. They read and infer to desperately try and take away from what they don’t know, to add to what they do know and understand, because in those moments they are both evolving. They evolve away from the versions that they used to be, their understanding of which is slowly being rendered obsolete, and into new versions entangled in understanding. These new versions are significantly altered by the presence of each of them in the other’s lives, nothing will ever be the same again.

Thoughts, ideas, bodies & lives are forever intertwined in those moments even if they are never relevant ever again.

Like with all kinds of reading, even if you stop reading and this version that you understood becomes obsolete, there is a certain charm that you can comfort yourself with, in knowing that there was a version of each of you that you read and understood. No one can take that away from you.

We read eachother because there is nothing in the world that will ever be as interesting as trying to read another human being. All kinds of entertainment around us are manifestations of it. They are stories of human beings reading each other and trying to understand eachother. Perhaps what it comes down to is that we’re all stories of some kind. You’re the protaginist in yours and me in mine. If you live long enough, you’ll live to tell yours, but if you live well enough, you will be read enough times that other people will tell your story for you.