All you had to do was ask
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How can you get close to someone you keep out of reach? You don't. The backbone of all meaningful connection, long forgotten. The best part of a new encounter is the curiosity that sparks excitement. We pretend not to care but the truth is you do. You don’t remember what you share but the willingness to be curious about another in an age of access is an act of love. Either romantic or platonic but it shows you care. A big word for us now. People show what they want to. The first step? Ask. Don’t let your feelings die and don’t leave me to look so close. All you really have to do is ask.
How can we mar the bridge between what’s really show and truly you. Connection is quite simple. Curiousity? not so much. In the age of access nothing is left askew. Was I supposed to just KNOW what you had for dinner or did you plan on telling me? Better yet, did I ask? Did you want to hear about it? It’s hard to know. The ever-changing gleam of desire, more like dull broken mirror hidden underneath everything else you forgot about. Do you desire to want to know. You ask because you care. Most of the beauty lies in asking. Being curious of others and ideas overall. yearning to know more of not just intellectual works but the ones next to us as well. How have you been and how am I to satiate the desire for more of you when there is a lack? Thinking of past conversations and all the things I never shared. Not because I didn’t want to but because they didn’t care to ask. So much of us is left up to interpretation. Does it have to be? At times I feel stupid for not sharing what I wanted to but it wasn’t that easy. I’m no good with words I say, as I write and rewrite trying to find conclusions to questions I’ll never answer. I can’t tell when I look deeply. Have I misread it all or have I romanticized the idea that perhaps someone really saw me. Where does that leave me? Wrestling with the ambiguity.
Is it too far fetched to believe that questioning and curiousity is being eradicated? Asking questions to the answers we have in the palm of our hand seems silly. Why inconvenience myself with asking? BECAUSE YOUR BRAIN should wonder. This not only applies to philosophies of life, but to the most important ones; those around us. I've been on the outside looking in for a long time. Slow down, see what others miss. Continue with intention. Start a new, rewrite the narrative. The people with permeance ask. The people who permeate are curious. Leaving a mark on someones soul. How beautiful it is to learn about another.
Make it easier. Make it known, don’t leave me to look so close up.
carry on now,
-Z
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