The many layers of a picture and the people frozen in the space behind the subjects
Unless the layers are the subjects and perhaps every picture is a painting of the insane
history of the universe that brought those souls to be standing behind those eternal souls
‘there are no ordinary people, only eternal souls becoming gods and monsters’ or somethinglikethat cs lewis said
i think about that a lot as i ignore a jabbering homeless woman that looks at me with distant eyes dehumanizing me as a pocket-book-preppy-asshole-with-spoiling-parents
as i dehumanize her as the result of a long string of short-sighted-self-serving-corroded-willpower-weakness-decisions
and she tells me some weak and tired lie that once probably sounded real about a bus ticket to see her children and i might buy her something at 7/11 although
i probably wont because i’m rushing somewhere far less important than the state of her life
and as with everything I am, so enter the mitigating factors of: my belief that a free society must give people the right to suffer from their decisions, and my spread-too-thin lifestyle of care can destroy me and more importantly them as they see in me a promise i cannot fulfill… blah blah
there are no ordinary people.
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so how do we expose the extraordinary and live it?
i want to be found at the well during the 6th hour asking for a sip of water, offering more than less. i see you extraordinarily.
a life lived with mere human lenses is blinding. we must change the way we see each other.
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