Desmond Tutu said: My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. If this is true it leads to the question of “how is that the case? Does it mean the quality and condition of being human for me is bound up somehow with you? Maybe it does, but then the quality and conditions of all who live are not the same.
However we each don’t have to be the same and yet still our humanity is bound up in each other because we can only be human together. We are different in order to realize our need of one another. Our differences create and amplfy our need to be together.
None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings.
Maybe the issue is just an awareness. Humanity happens when we care enough to want to understand how others are doing.
What about fantasy? Does one persons look at fantasy find common expression with others? Maybe the feelings and thoughts, that fantasy provokes, are similar. Maybe they are actually different, but just need to be shared?
Does pondering what might be missing in our thinking open doors to connections? Can we ponder what we have had no experience with?
More questions than answers here.
