Mirror Mirror

I shudder to remember a time when talking meant subtle introversion. Is that something we lost? I'm serious, is that something we have to contend with now. People so scared and paranoid that you're always weary that they're leering a little too close to the surface.

I haven't thought about it to be honest. Perhaps, that's part of your issue. It's a slant, and your perception can turn everything on it's side.

So you're saying that everyone collectively is still the same level of shallow as they were twenty-some years ago?

It's not about being shallow, everyone can be shallow. This is about seeing your own shallowness in other people, and how you deal with that.

It's that and it's little things like noticing how in order to converse openly with someone I need some sort of actual context unlike in my youth where "sharing the same vibration of existence" was enough to warrant starting a conversation with someone. There's a fear in people's eyes now that didn't use to be there.

It's the same amount of fear that's always been there, the difference is that you're more fearful now.

I'm denoting a pattern with you...

You know how these conversations about "society" usually goes: You start off by making a blanket statement about the world, and I make the same statement about you. It's a basic redirect, works with almost anything really.

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