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sometimes, when you get to know someone very well, you can say things that don't make very good sense or or only make poetic sense in regular conversation, and that's ok. what annoys me about regular conversation is how prepared and conventional it is, how you first have a thought, then formulate a sentence that is mundane and simple, and then you say it. people always wonder how other animals communicate, and the answer is that they are actually more highly developed than we are. they don't have an accepted format for how to tell each other things, they just *say* things. its an art. sometimes people can look at each other and say things without speaking, but its usually just a single sentence in a conversation.
we're so formal. we're the most formal creatures on earth. even though other creatures have elaborate rituals for specific things like mating, we have elaborate rituals for *everything*. we over-think things. its what we do. and on the one hand, that's great, because we get to have all kinds of deep and interesting thoughts, but on the other hand, we forget to clearwatermountainbuddhalive. you know what i mean?