It’s mind boggling to pause and think that every single person walking around on the planet right now, every person you pass on the street, each one of your colleagues, every person in your family is living in a world that is a rich and complex yours. Each of us has a unique perspective and a unique experience of the world we live in.
This isn’t a new idea, but it can be profound if you let it sink in.
What can take the mind-melting-ness to another level, is when you realise that we each affect each other, and so our stories intermingle.
Imagine two people walking through an open home. They’re the only people in the house. They will have a different experience of the home. Not just because they walk through each room in the house in a different sequence, or that they have different aesthetic preferences, but they have a different history, different needs, and have come from different days. All of this affects our experience of a home.
If truth is paradox, then it is certainly true that we are all different, which makes us all the same.