25 January 2008

I saw something on a site today that just screamed hypocrisy at me. It was something someone I vaguely know wrote on the page of someone else I vaguely know, or used to know, or whatever, and it just struck me as completely incongruous to everything I thought I knew about either of them. Total does not compute moment!

But then, I thought - just because people are not how we remember them, doesn't mean they're being deliberately false. And it occurred to me that, in the light of how things have changed, it's hardly any surprise to see that particular thing there now - which leaves me thinking that above anything it's our circumstances that have the power to draw us towards people or tear us apart. It would take little short of a miracle to keep a relationship stable in the midst of wildly fluctuating circumstances.

And what's weirdest of all is the knowledge of how much I changed, and how, in a sense, without meaning to deceive, I stopped playing a role I used to play, and how that might have even contributed ever so slightly to bringing about what I read today. In the end, all of the movements are kaleidoscopic, and all the shifts compliment each other.