Two eyes, a nose, a set of ears -- the usual furniture. It is often difficult to have a moment of isolation in this cramped, crazy world of ours; always surrounded, always hounded, always competing; competing with those faces around you. Those faces you see on the train, on the bike next to you at the traffic light; faces as sad, happy, loved as yours is from time to time.
There is a face you relate to on a particular day; the same face you might have ignored earlier. Every face tells you a story, a perception you build around that unique piece of furniture fitted on the same frame all humanity shares. But, doesn't every face has a perception behind it; some perceptions we build, most we ignore. We just don't have the time.
Well, the ones that do have the time become the writers, the directors, the creative nutty guys. Whatever the disclaimer at the start of a movie or a novel tells you, events in the story are definitely out of some real life story or perception.
Why don't we have the time to relate to that face who might just be a mirror to your own consciousness, your own frailties, your own wrongs, your own rights? Isn't society built on connection? Or have we left that to a phenomenon called the internet where a billion robots on a trillion keys in some digital form or another hammer out matter that is always there?
Well, maybe I am just an analogue, old fashioned guy in this digital world!
You certainly aren't alone !
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