story replaces privacy

if i show you everything, what will you see?

i tentatively let go that thing called privacy.  in its place, i struggle to find my story. 

a friend once said to me, "there's an inner piece of me that no one can touch."

as i let go what i once considered my protection -  privacy, i feel that i am slowly getting to know that inner piece of me.

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[karl]

If you show me everything, I will only see but "you" will always be out of my reaching. In the same way when we read a text, we only get a specific and personal understanding of it, not the one of the author, not the one that the other person beside me got.

If you show me everything, I don't see more than my own interpretation of you. You are still far hidden behind a mask, blended in an infinite shade of thoughts.

There's no privacy, no absolute privacy. I go out of my place, I am here with my body making an interaction with the world. My own existence is tracked by many unknown persons around me. They all know a bit about me, my schedules, my work, my moments of joy and happiness. They read my face and interpret the sign. Privacy doesn't really exist.

What many people call privacy, I call it intimacy. This thing that only you have access to.

(But as usual, I'm talking too much, funny coming from someone who loves being silent with someone else.)

[Lin]

since i'm on such a godard kick lately:

a hen has an inside and an outside. if you take away the outside, there's the inside. if you take away the inside, there's the soul.

can't remember which movie is it from though, but it will come back to me:)

[Jim]

Show me your "truth" and all I can ever see is the fiction that you have chosen for me.
To seek the truth about yourself is not an act of stripping away, but one of building up, to create those things which you believed were always there.

[Lin]

that would be difficult for me because i don't have beliefs;) i used to but they mocked me so much that i had to let them go:)

the fact that you're only seeing a creation - does that bother you? but creation is life itself.