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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swirlie · 31-35

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

Infamous607 · 51-55, M

@swirlie The sharing is in the telling. You're sharing something of yours with someone. You're giving them something.
That's a good point tho.

swirlie · 31-35

@Infamous607
I understand what you're saying, meaning you are sharing your successes with someone by telling them. That is not sharing, that is only sharing the information about it.

The only thing you are sharing is the details behind those successes, but you don't actually share in any of those successes themselves... which means you can only talk about yourself and what you've accomplished, but you cannot share the fruits of what you've accomplished.

If you could share them, then the other person would instantly become just as successful as you are without doing any of the leg work.

Infamous607 · 51-55, M

@swirlie
I suppose you're right. That's just semantics tho. What I mean by sharing is not what you mean by it.
I'm surely not explaining myself clearly.
It's one of those things that is still fuzzy in my head. You know ? When you're trying to figure shit out?
But of course in your context sharing is a lot more than just telling.
Within my context even a look or a touch is sharing.
But I do understand what you're saying. Thank you

swirlie · 31-35

@Infamous607
...like sharing a picture is what you're talking about, where two people look at it and share in it's beauty, right?

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.