Gentleman Unknown
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You’re not. And here’s how I know, the fact that you’re reading this right now. You didn’t stumble here by reason. Something pulled you. Curiosity, boredom, A wound that hasn’t closed yet. An emotion decided your next move before your mind even knew it was moving.
Every opinion you hold with certainty. Every argument you have constructed so carefully. Trace it back far enough and you will find a feeling at the root. A rejection. A loss. Something that hurt you into believing what you believe.
The man who tells you looks are everything, when did that become his truth? The woman who says she needs no one, what taught her that? Why am I writing this thread in the first place? Maybe ego? Maybe validation from reacts? Maybe desire to be seen as intelligent? or maybe all three?
You think you arrived at your conclusions. You didn’t. You were led there.
And that reply forming in your head right now, that defensiveness rising in your chest, you feel that? That’s not logic defending itself. That is emotion wearing logic’s mask.
The most rational thing you could ever do is admit that you are not rational. That beneath every thought is a feeling that thought is trying to justify.
Know the root. Then maybe, just maybe, you will know yourself.
Every opinion you hold with certainty. Every argument you have constructed so carefully. Trace it back far enough and you will find a feeling at the root. A rejection. A loss. Something that hurt you into believing what you believe.
The man who tells you looks are everything, when did that become his truth? The woman who says she needs no one, what taught her that? Why am I writing this thread in the first place? Maybe ego? Maybe validation from reacts? Maybe desire to be seen as intelligent? or maybe all three?
You think you arrived at your conclusions. You didn’t. You were led there.
And that reply forming in your head right now, that defensiveness rising in your chest, you feel that? That’s not logic defending itself. That is emotion wearing logic’s mask.
The most rational thing you could ever do is admit that you are not rational. That beneath every thought is a feeling that thought is trying to justify.
Know the root. Then maybe, just maybe, you will know yourself.
