A question of purpose.

I wonder, what is the purpose of having or accomplishing anything if we couldn't share it.

Would you want to be the biggest CEO of the biggest corporations, with bazillions of dollars, but you couldn't tell anyone. You go into an office alone. Do your CEO stuff and go home. Only you know.

Or spend your life training and winning and Olympic medal, but again, you couldn't tell or share it with no one.
A new car, a title , a house, marriage , anything and everything is for you only to experience and never to share.

What would be the purpose of learning if you couldn't teach? Yeah?

Maybe it is the whole social animal thing. And the need to connect with others is imprinted in our code .

I suppose I too, get the need to connect , like I guess everybody here. I come and post some crazy ramblings, make some comments here and there. A like here, a block there.

Thing is that even if I were to get no responses, no hearts, and no acknowledgement of any kind, at least I'm am sharing something with someone somewhere. Which is better than carrying all that with you with no one or nowhere to share it with.

That would be a horrible fucking feeling.

Know what I mean?

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

It all goes to show just how important personal relationships are in life. Being able to tell someone who cares is an important part of an experience, whether it's making money, seeing something which you enjoyed or the things that you have suggested.

Infamous607 · 51-55, M

@FreddieUK
Telling someone who cares is part of the experience.
That's exactly my point.
Sharing the experience is part of the experience.
Like where you eat is part of the experience of having a nice meal.
Thank you for the comment.
That made it a lot more clear to me.

ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69

Ooh this reminds me of a classic Jewish-American joke.

In between services on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year when no everyday activities are permitted, the rabbi gets in his car (sin # 1) and drives out of town to the golf course (sin # 2) to play a round (sins just piling up here!)
Up in heaven the angels are looking down in horror and saying, "God! God! Look at what's happening! This man who is supposed to be devoted to you, who represents you to his congregation, is desecrating your holiest day! Punish him!"
God just chuckles and says "wait, wait".
The angels wait anxiously... as the rabbi's game goes great for him. It's a beautiful afternoon and he's playing his best game of golf ever. At every hole the angels are looking pleadingly at God, begging Him to do something, and God is just smiling mysteriously.
Finally the rabbi arrives at the eighteenth hole and -- he gets a hole in one!! First in his life.
The angels look at God in utter dismay.
God does an evil laugh, and says:
"Think about it. Who is he going to tell?"

Infamous607 · 51-55, M

@ThePatientAnarchist
Exactly!

But that kind of opens a new thinking. Isn't it enough for the Rabbi the satisfaction of playing round of golf and getting a hole in one, just for his personal satisfaction?

Is he just as happy not sharing it and enjoying it all to himself?

ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69

@Infamous607 That's the big question, isn't it!
Now of course us Jews are very talky people, so the answer for the rabbi is probably no -- since he can't tell anyone about it, it will not make him happy!

Infamous607 · 51-55, M

@ThePatientAnarchist 😊 Of course

swirlie · 31-35

But you're not actually sharing ANY of those things you mentioned with anyone, just because you tell them about it.

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Infamous607 · 51-55, M

@swirlie kinda but more like...
If you and I are sitting next to each one in the bus. Not acknowledging each other. Not talking to each other, each wearing ear pods. When we part, nothing from either of us was shared with the other. It was like two shadows crossing paths.
Yes?
No imagine the same situation but we are talking and having a conversation. I know what you go. You know what I do. We ask questions..when we leave we do so taking something from the other person. What he shared . A bit of himself or herself.
The question is...imagine if we had to go thru life not able to ever do that to ever connect with someone.
Yeah?

swirlie · 31-35

@Infamous607
Okay, I get what you mean now.

Infamous607 · 51-55, M

@swirlie I know you do.

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