Friday, January 4, 2008

Disambiguation of "you"

Sometimes when I say you, I really mean you. Other times, I mean myself. I wonder if this distinction is noted by my unconscious mind.

This can be problematic when I spat in a temper, "I hate you!" Now, I could be talking about my exboyfriend, and his lack of emotional awareness and putrid absence of magnanimous behavior.

But I wonder if my subconscious thinks as it does when I listen to a love song and hears "I am in love with the way you feel" and singles out of all the yous in the world, inevitably myself.

Perhaps I'm not giving the old girl enough credit. Or perhaps, our situational semantics is playing ping pong with my emotional underbelly.

Maybe we are all "you." Each of us is picked out of all of us. So special.

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