unclear and trying to wonder.

WILL YOU WONDER WITH ME?

I want to make Plato simple. I plan to do this by reaching out to your heart and making an absolute connection with the hope that you will then feel satisfied, whole, instead of lost, or perhaps, suicidal. Humor must be present in terms like these, when we are exposing all the mysteries only to further the actual mystical of life. It can be frightening, belittling and gives the sense that meaning is nonexistent, which may make you want to jump. But let’s stay a little while longer and note that we innately, do what we know will invoke feeling in us. “Few people have the ability to work out that we ourselves are bound to store the harvest we reap from others…” (Plato 79). People, we are smarter than we even are aware. But it’s our hearts that are the geniuses. What is this harvest we are gathering from others? Is he saying that we take on the feelings of others? Why would we do this? Perhaps, we look to others to feel, because we, ourselves are just brains on sticks? To take on another’s feelings, is to come in touch with our own, to ground ourselves back to a state of okay-ness, possibly? Feeling, I believe, for humans, is a sense, which we do not see as having much control over and therefore seems REAL. We’re back to where we’ve started. The earth is round. We keep going round. To feel is to be or participate in reality and to see is to deem reality and to think is to destroy, distort or “deform” reality. Plato, Socrates and Glaucon thought about it, and we went on the ride with them, but the beautiful thing about this “real” world, is that we choose the path we take as with the story we tell. I say it’s all questionable and indeed, all creatable.