Have you ever had the experience of staring at a word for some time and then realise you have no idea how to spell that word ? There was once I was writing an essay in school and I got stuck at the end of a sentence. The last word I wrote was the word house. I stared at it and at the same time drifted along in my thoughts searching for a way to continue my tale. Soon, I realised I didn't know how to spell the word house. I was looking at it BUT I had no clue what it meant. I didn't even know how my hands wrote the word in that order.. H-O-U-S-E.

Something similiar occured when I was in high school. I suddenly realised that my friends whom I have spent my entire school life with is a human being ! That sounds kinda stupid but really when you think about it, we do take people for granted and not realise that they too are human. When I tried explaining this finding of mine to my friends , they gave me a look that clearly said " I always knew you were a tad weird but this is it. You are nuts ! " No matter how much I tried explaining it they just didn't get it .

Anyway, it was till I watched the movie " As Good as it Gets" that I realised I wasn't the only one who felt and saw things that way.. In the movie, the gay artist was looking for a moment where his models showed their humanity before he painted them. " If you look at a person long enough , you discover their humanity " That was precisely what I meant. Isn't it amazing how we sometimes get so wrapped up in our own insecurities and hurts that we don't see the suffering of others ? Everyone hides behind a facade and it only takes a moment when all is exposed. So take time off to really look at someone you care for.. and maybe you'll see exactly just what I mean.