@vikorr,
vikorr wrote:
Awareness (even limited)...what are we without it? How would we grow? How would we know what others are feeling? How would we know why we do things? Life would be lesser I think.
Respectfully, I disagree. We don't know why we do things. We don't have any tangible answers to the great questions which arise from this awareness. And is it a gift or just circumstance? Without awareness we wouldn't be able to say that life is lesser simply because we would be unaware of it.
The greatest gift I have ever received- by defining gift as an object received for no other reason than the act of giving- was a book of Isaac Asimov stories. The reason is that this gift was from a person who had only known me for a few days, and yet gave me something that showed me how honestly we had bonded. In a more abstract sense of the word "gift", any hug or kiss received takes the greatest gift spot. The reason is that touch is a dying sensation. To really enjoy being in the immediate personal space of another human being is to let oneself be vulnerable and accept that we cannot control the space around us. For anyone to give up their security to feel close to me is a thing better left without words. Gifts, in my mind, if I should rank them, rank in terms of happiness for both giver and receiver.
It is a nice thing to think about. Thanks, Mark.
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