the right conversations - by Ava - bookbear express

going farther, faster

A constant topic in literature is the abyss between two people, how no matter how close you are to someone they remain a wilderness to you. I’ve spent a lot of my life wondering exactly how unbridgeable that abyss is: how well is it possible to understand someone else? I think we all long for that moment of pure recognition, the sense that someone else gets us, and we pursue it in friends and lovers with varying degrees of success. I’ve known people who have a ton in common with me intellectually but not emotionally. I also known people who are similar to me emotionally but not…

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