the Other
What does it mean for us to interact with the Other?
To find space.
Distance.
Relationship.
Absence.
Nearness.
What does it look like to relate to someone else?
It requires entering the Other.
Or having their space interfere with your space.
It is a losing act and a gaining act.
An act that requires making room and bridging a distance.
What does it mean to cross a distance or space?
Space that defines awkwardness.
Distance that creates necessity and fondness.
Room that makes for the unknown.
To take up that awkwardness and fondness and make a way forward into the familiar and uncertain.
This is the existence of human community.