Charles (charlesatan) wrote, @ 2003-02-20 23:04:00

Stalker Rule #2
Stalker Rule #2: You can never totally know a person.

If we manage to know every single detail about a person, we'd be God. Well, people hardly know themselves. Can you really expect to know more than that? And even when we use the expression "I know him/her better than he/she knows himself/herself", we don't know what the person is currently thinking. Maybe in the future, they'll come up with a device that allows people to communicate via telepathy. But before then, the inadequancy of language fills that gap. And certainly people don't speak what's on their minds to everyone they meet. Even to their closest confidants, people keep secrets.

For all that is unconcealed by the person, a whole lot more is hidden. It would be arrogant and false to judge a person based on one aspect of their life, be it an encounter, their blog (especially not blogs), and other trivial circumstances.

For every piece of information you have about a person, there will be several more that you don't know. There's nothing wrong with admitting that you "don't know". Acknowledging that fact enables you to seek out information.

P.S. It only occurred to me now that some people might actually take this seriously. Don't! I actually have better things to do than stalk people. And so do you.

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