0531 strands

0531 strands

spent the afternoon on the beach with many of my dearest friends in the world, one of whose birthdays it was.

looking around at the many hundreds of people sharing the beach, I thought about the experiences shared and not shared for each individual there at the same time

it's the same beach

the same weather

more or less the same sand under our feet

most of us heard and saw the drone zipping overhead at one point

but not everyone

if we were to make a comprehensive Venn diagram of how we experience the world, a blobby field for each individual..

I think that it might look less clustered together than it did, say, 30 years ago

but people will always need to share physical spaces with each other

perhaps more so for the extroverted, but introverts still need contact in order to remain mentally/emotionally healthy

the other day, my video production teacher, Matthew assumed that we 2 students attending class were "more or less extroverts" bc I'm a performing musician, and the other works as a bartender

we looked at each other and said, nope we're not at all. it is ironic, I admit. It tells me that perhaps many paying jobs require exposure to strangers, and introverts simply must roll with it.

I got a bit off track there, but it's vaguely relevant, I suppose.