Posted by
Sue on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:14:11 PM
03/27/07
Just got off MyDD, a left website. I usually don't visit left sites because the blogging is so discordant with my thought processes that it can literally hurt. But, I was directed by one of my daily reads so I went. My daily read felt that this particular leftist site was not anywhere near as bad as DailyKos or the HuffPo or the Wapo, etc. I perused it and even goggled the author of the post I had been directed to. He was a rabid uber leftist in this posting and since I don't know anything about him, personally, I still had a hard time reading his words.
And then it occurred to me that perhaps we might be able to communicate? Do you think that's possible? I honestly don't know. What I do know is that there is an alternative reality to mine out there. I first noticed this about a year ago when I was talking "life" with a younger women, one in her early forties. As we approached religion, lifestyles and politics, she stood up with her hands flailing, her head shaking side to side and her kept repeating "this is not real"..."this is not real"....and literally walked away. The next day she looked uncomfortable in my presence.
I did not then understand what had happened. What I did understand was that her concept of what was real regarding life was completely different from mine. Almost as if one of us was in the light and the other in the dark. We have never spoken of that incident since, but to give you an example of why I think I was in the "light", I'll tell you a small story: this woman recently gave birth to a wonderful (per his pictures) little boy. Within two weeks of this child's birth she was aghast that everything on her life now had to do with the baby! After all, he needed to be fed, nurtured, cleaned up and soothed. What was she to do? All of her best made plans had to change!!! See what I mean?
So this brings me back to the blogger at MyDD....do you think we could communicate across our alternate realities? I, for one, am going to try by emailing him a response to his post. I will let you know where we go from there.