Thursday, September 01, 2005
A Need for Truth
From Aueralis
"venial
i hate people who judge(isnt that oxymoronic?)
i know every person has their own opinion, their likes, dislikes....
but when these drive a rift between people... its just.... irritating
why in the world is there a need to keep a distance from people?
can you not give them chances?"
We all judge; it's a survival mechanism. We judge poorly, and we judge well - we judge to discern friends from acquaintences, lovers from friends...
... I think it's assumptions that are the true forces that drive rifts between people.
A fortnight of silence; he bullheadedly trying to provoke the truth, she misinterpreting, misunderstanding, and becoming yet more silent - making assumptions.
He, at last, being driven to an inescapable assumption / conclusion. And in his typically melodramatic way, culminating the entire affair in a confrontation...
... in the aftermath, a friendship (though some would already have questioned the worth), ruined irrevocably. No second chances, no paths left with which to return to the past.
She will not read these words, she will not visit this page again, I know. She is not a creature of words... and were she to read these, she would not understand.
I write these words for You, and I.
*****
She : "... and if you expect me to fly across the world... well I won't..."
...something about a career, and how nobody would get in the way of it...
The largest assumption.
He : (silence)
The first painful silence; the first truth, witheld :
I would have flown across the world, for You, stupid.
The second truth, witheld, unchanced-upon :
I stayed my tongue... because I loved You.
*****
In the aftermath, a obsessive quest for truth, a burning urge to speak regardless of the consequences. A Need for Truth.
A regret.
*****
Let these be a headstone to the death of assumptions in my life; let this be a testimony to the wrongs that should never have been.
"venial
i hate people who judge(isnt that oxymoronic?)
i know every person has their own opinion, their likes, dislikes....
but when these drive a rift between people... its just.... irritating
why in the world is there a need to keep a distance from people?
can you not give them chances?"
We all judge; it's a survival mechanism. We judge poorly, and we judge well - we judge to discern friends from acquaintences, lovers from friends...
... I think it's assumptions that are the true forces that drive rifts between people.
A fortnight of silence; he bullheadedly trying to provoke the truth, she misinterpreting, misunderstanding, and becoming yet more silent - making assumptions.
He, at last, being driven to an inescapable assumption / conclusion. And in his typically melodramatic way, culminating the entire affair in a confrontation...
... in the aftermath, a friendship (though some would already have questioned the worth), ruined irrevocably. No second chances, no paths left with which to return to the past.
She will not read these words, she will not visit this page again, I know. She is not a creature of words... and were she to read these, she would not understand.
I write these words for You, and I.
*****
She : "... and if you expect me to fly across the world... well I won't..."
...something about a career, and how nobody would get in the way of it...
The largest assumption.
He : (silence)
The first painful silence; the first truth, witheld :
I would have flown across the world, for You, stupid.
The second truth, witheld, unchanced-upon :
I stayed my tongue... because I loved You.
*****
In the aftermath, a obsessive quest for truth, a burning urge to speak regardless of the consequences. A Need for Truth.
A regret.
*****
Let these be a headstone to the death of assumptions in my life; let this be a testimony to the wrongs that should never have been.
