The overwhelming feeling of yearning for some unidentified thing that you experience when you realize that you will never truly understand or know a person, even yourself. The mind of any given person is infinite. Like a labyrinth, there are twists and turns, dead ends, and crevices that even they have not dared to explore yet for fear of losing their way. The explanation that a person offers for their actions, reactions, motives, thought processes, expressions, body language, etc. will only ever be scraping the surface of what seems like a bottomless basin of activating events, memories, and feelings that have led to the formation of that person’s current self. If even that person has not and will probably never familiarize themselves with the pathways paved in their own mind, how could you ever hope to? Ironically, this only prompts you to want to understand a person even more and with a stronger urge than before.
by JThom333 September 10, 2017