Socialcaterpillar’s Weblog

I know I said a few months ago that I didn’t think SocialCaterpillar would service as much of a function now that I’m away at school, since it seems that the scene here is a little more homogenous…perhaps I should have given myself a little more time to make that judgment! In fact, my feelings toward the relationships between people, and my place among them, are all the more salient now, perhaps due to that very homogeneity, which seems to draw out the contrasts between people. While this won’t be a long and exploratory post, I feel that it is only with brevity and simplicity that I can express the sense I currently feel.

In the past 24 hours I have had a number of conversations (one or two in particular) which seemed to have all pivoted around the same set of ideas, while all taking place among a diverse spectrum of friends. In fact, it is inaccurate to label of these experiences conversations, because it has often been the case that it was what was not spoken that connected the two events. To illustrate:

A friend and I were conversing last night, when the topic of the existence of three selves came up—the way one perceives themself, the way they are perceived, and their true self. Later on, I was with a friend who was…not quite themself. I having noticed this, somewhat to their surprise, mentioned this tripartite conception. Here were two people who had never met, while to my mind one had, the previous night, been describing the other, in terms of this idea. These two people, entirely different in a multitude of ways, were very much connected via myself, and my own interpretation of their thoughts.

I apologize if my reasoning is somewhat cloudy and ambiguous, but it is very late, and I am very tired.

Fin.