Humankind often suffers unnecessarily.
We long so deeply to be understood by others
that we overlook one essential thing:
Before seeking understanding, look carefully at who stands before you.
Do they carry the same emotional depth, the same moral weight, as you do?
If not, then there is little reason to suffer over being misunderstood.
For the deeper you are, the more likely you are to remain unread by lesser depths.
Yet that is both your blessing and their punishment.
A strange kind of grace—
to remain beyond the grasp of those
who are fascinated by what they can never reach,
and resent what they cannot possess.
May 10
May 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM UTC
Humankind often suffers unnecessarily.
We long so deeply to be understood by others
that we overlook one essential thing:
Before seeking understanding, look carefully at who stands before you.
Do they carry the same emotional depth, the same moral weight, as you do?
If not, then there is little reason to suffer over being misunderstood.
For the deeper you are, the more likely you are to remain unread by lesser depths.
Yet that is both your blessing and their punishment.
A strange kind of grace—
to remain beyond the grasp of those
who are fascinated by what they can never reach,
and resent what they cannot possess.
#freedom #cage