My Experience

My experience: 

it's my experience that makes things so - that everything is unique to me alone, even through it's shared. What I know each moment is my own interpretation of events, my deep personal sense of color, sound, and more subtle things as well. The world is filtered to my own belonging, and too yours, and through this we come to a shared understanding. 

it's how we navigate the world together.

in some ways, through this aloneness of experience, we are brought together deeply - I know from my own touch of air the pleasure of a breeze, from a birdsong I know the joy of early morning. What brings you joy is your own unique pleasure, perhaps different than mine, but at its depth it's the soul of who we are. Our experience is the outer expression of our true common bond. We share the world together, not apart in the things that really matter.

it's empathy, sensing that another is alone in experience, yet knowing as well that we are the depth of one another, that yes, my experience belongs to me, but experiencing itself is universal. My experience informs me of a personal world. That I experience at all is a shared trait of our awareness, a thing never truly apart, belonging to us all together. 

in this way, it's my experience alone, only it's interpretation belongs to me. Everything else is ours, a shared touch of the same air arriving as a breeze, the same listening even as it comes from different birds and other mornings. 

it seems there is no true alone. 

~

Peace, Eric