Mind Rambling: Other People

I can only experience my life, and my thoughts, and you can only experience yours. When I think about everyone on earth, I think about more than seven billion people. Humans. And when I get to know somebody, they are no longer just a person. They are not just one of the many people. They are a friend. They are somebody of whom you can relate to. You can experience their personality, and thoughts. But you can’t experience their life. You cannot fully understand anybody, not even family members. And to everybody else, you are just somebody else. Someone of whom they don’t know much about, and thus don’t see you at first glance as somebody who thinks thoughts, and has personality and a life, like you. But when you start to think about it, you realize that, and correct yourself. I sometimes wish I could experience a link to somebody more than mere knowledge of them from what they say and do. To link minds, conscience, and thoughts. You could look at their memories and experience them like yours. You could truly and fully understand that person, and they could understand you just as well. Even if that link was quickly severed, those two people would be permanently bonded. More bonded than anybody else. Now I wonder what it would be like if everybody in the world, even the universe, linked minds, even for just a minute. Everybody would be able to experience the life, knowledge, thoughts, dreams, and opinions. Everybody would know each other more than any two best friends. More than a wife and husband. More than a family. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to experience such a thing.