phenomenal consciousness is inherently lonely, yet the relation of our different experiences is exactly how we connect on the deepest level. it’s incommunicable but only via trying to share those experiences do we understand each other.

now in this sense, it’s not about getting it right, but attempting at all. what we have in common is just what we can’t understand.

when you take this as a truth, listening to someone’s story, experience, struggle becomes a whole different game. empathy becomes 10x as strong of an emotion to feel.

“how strange it is to be anything at all”