What happens when we, as people, meet another person?

I don't mean the social graces; the "Hey, how ya doins'" and the small talk. I want to know this: When I truly come to know a person, does that person show me something that's been inside me all along, or does something new take place within me?

I mean, there've been significant events that have occured to me that wouldn't have happened if I'd known certain people, and these things have been bad, good, and simply ambiguous. I want to know if they awakened something in me, or if I made a new choice to alter myself in some way. Am I truly a tabula rasa like Locke says, or am I, as a person, in need of being discovered by another person?

I've just been thinking about the things in my life that I feel have affected me deeply, and I just find it interesting that I don't know if the choice to change was a choice I made, or simply a part of myself that I discovered. I supposed the two could be one in the same, but I'd rather investigate this foundation before conflating the two ideologies.

Something set me off along this train of thought. Don't worry about what it was.

You sound down
I hope you feel better soon.
» kkama67 on 2006-11-17 04:07:10

So... I'm sure the people full of hot air were all at home.
» ikimashokie on 2006-11-22 10:58:03

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