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Our life is made up of several lives which together make up our humanness →

October 3, 2020 Brent Jones
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Our life story creates our identity, but that story must include all the lives we have experienced that make up our lives. One example is this quote: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons.

We can expand our own experience by learning more about others' human experiences. To do so, we need to know about the characteristics, key events, and situations that comprise the essentials of their lives: their struggles, conclusions, emotional responses, aspirations, and even their deaths.

Another well-known author, Tony Hillerman, writing about the Navajo people and their traditions, said: “Everything is connected. The corn beetle's wing affects the wind's direction, the way the sand drifts, and the way the light reflects into the eye of a man beholding his reality. All are part of totality; in this totality, man finds his hero, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.”

Authors are the gatekeepers to the lives they write about and provide us with the pathway to their knowledge and experiences. Harold Bloom, a well-known literature professor at Yale, has written many books about exciting authors. His book, Shakespeare, The Invention of the Human, claims that the playwright’s vocabulary of 22,000 words was so extensive that it proves he knew pretty much everything there was to tell about humankind. According to Bloom, Shakespeare “invented the human,” or at least a more complete definition of humanness.

In an interview published in 1995, Bloom reflected on the great authors of the Western world, stating the importance of reading and studying Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, and Cervantes. He said of these authors:

“They provide an intellectual and a spiritual value which has nothing to do with organized religion or the history of institutional belief………They tell us things we couldn’t possibly know without them, and they reform our minds. They make us more vital.”

Indeed, Bloom defines humanness using the stories and writings of authors rather than his own life story, but then, for Bloom, the authors he studied are a part of him.

Shakespeare’s quotes reflect a deep understanding of humanness that resonates with our lives today. I like these quotes, among so many others:

•          There is nothing good or bad; only thinking makes it so—Hamlet

•          Hell is empty, and the devils are here—The Tempest

•          Though this be madness, there is a method in it—Hamlet

•          All that glitters is not gold—The Merchant of Venice

•          To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man—Hamlet

The meaning of life is much more than our daily experiences and can include much from those other lives we read about. For example, I learned from Hyeonseo Lee’s “The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea” that I am glad I can be aware of the world without suffering from personal experience. Much can be witnessed in the nonfiction accounts of other people.

Even fiction gives us insight into our humanness. The suspense and twisting plots of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series take us to places we would never go and into situations we would never find ourselves in. We find excitement, empathy, and emotional experience in fiction. Literary critics often label a piece of writing as literature rather than fiction if it tries to describe the “human condition.”

Poetry can also challenge the status quo in our lives and, by doing so, improve the human condition of all people. An example is Maya Angelou’s work, which fought for equality and humanity, writing about the plights and triumphs of marginalized people.

What we learn about others by reading becomes part of the real meaning of our own lives.

In Reading Matters, We Live Multiple Lives, other lives matter Tags Humanness, reading, life.story
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