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No Man is an Island
by ~~ John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were.
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
No man is an island. We desire to talk because we are basically all social creatures, interconnected with one another though at times we may not realize this. It is through the talking, the sharing, that we sometimes come to know this for the first time, each time. The desire to talk, at times, the need to talk, is spiritually/emotionally speaking, as important as eating and drinking. It is nourishing for the human psyche. If we are unable in some ways to communicate, to relate to others, we can shrivel up and die. There is a great loneliness about that, I have found. We are not island.
Then, there is talk and there is talk.
There is the more intimate kind of sharing, which is more profound and meaningful and satisfying, which allows us silly humans to feel connected on a much deeper level, where people may see us at our core, a place where we actually live and breathe that is not shared with many. Without this, many go hungry and loneliness creeps in.
lol I don’t mean to be so urgent about it.
Just as laughter soothes the savage beast, so does talking and sharing deeply.
I intuit that at times it is the sharing, the intimacy, even the every day run-of-the-mill conversations which can bring us to a further understanding of what those desires are. I think that half of the time we do not even realize them.
I do also agree with what you said above though. We can’t ask the right questions if we do not know what we are about just as we cannot ask the right questions, philosophically speaking, in a forum, unless we have an idea of what IS and what we are looking for, to know.
Did that make any sense?