Conversation With Eric

It is human nature to desire relationships. I don't mean "going out" per se, but rather any sort of relationship, with any sort of outward thing. It is human nature to create a relationship with a place, for instance, adding an extra, ethereal meaning to it, calling it "my hometown." The creation of a relationship with something like that inherently adds intangible meaning to it beyond what it means in and of itself. It is human nature to thusly attach itself outward to other things. In Cast Away, Tom Hanks's character reached out to a volleyball. People have their favorite baseball cap. People have their favorite sports team. In cave man days, I am convinced that people had their favorite animal-killing club or walking stick. People always have this urge to pull strings out of their hearts and tie them to other things or other people, attach themselves to the real world, and make things more meaningful than they really, objectively are...

If one were only able to tie a string not outward, but inward, onto oneself, the meaning of life would be found, and all problems would disappear. But that's probably about as impossible as a mirror ever being able to see itself.