Worlds Apart

There are many permutations of how the world goes round. We all have different experiences and lenses through which we act within it and all live in different realms while on the same plane of existence. Our ability to show our perspectives to others is a remarkable feature of our species. We have an ability to empathize in such a way that I leave my world and journey over to yours to see how it all looks to you. I can’t feel the experience as you experienced it, your qualia, but I can gather an understanding and it will likely change my own view of existence.

It is a type of transcendence in which I travel outside of my lived experience to something I have no acquaintance with.

We have a desire to share who we are with others and to show them a view that they don’t have.

When you are the only one that experiences the world in a particular way, it becomes very lonely, we want companionship in it. If my personal sphere is pursued to the exclusion of others I alienate myself. We feel valued when someone sees our view and we learn to love greater when we see theirs.